Season 2 · Episode 21 — Chapter Forty-Three
One of Senate's most promising students and his brother become entangled in criminal acts with fatal results; Hanson draws criticism for sending a letter to a girl's parents because she is overweight.
Season 2 episodes
E1New teachers join the faculty; Lipschultz gets into trouble after giving a student the wrong name; Marla sponsors a club of female students.
E2Ronnie begins her teaching career at Winslow High; Lauren tries to help a pregnant, straight-A student gain admission to Princeton.
E3Senate is outraged when he learns that a prized student purchased a college-application essay over the Internet. Hanson's class decides to…
E4Harper's headstrong daughter Brooke enrolls at Winslow High after she is kicked out of private school. Meanwhile, when Ronnie is disappoint…
E5Hanson is arrested after a domestic dispute, causing Harper to seriously consider firing him. Lauren is skeptical when a student decides to…
E6A statutory-rape case entangles Ronnie with the enraged parents of the 15-year-old victim; an illicit-drug situation embroils Harper with h…
E7Harper reunites with his ex-wife at a holiday benefit; students ask Louisa, Marilyn and Marla to perform at the pageant; Senate stays mum a…
E8A revelation concerning Jeremy fractures the relationship between his mother and Guber; a plea from a death-row inmate troubles Harper; a s…
E9Tensions escalate among Meredith, Jeremy and Guber, who seek family counseling; controversy swirls around a student's class-project photo a…
E10Guber accepts Lauren's offer of a platonic date; Ronnie confronts a student about her pregnancy; Hanson helps his students cope with the af…
E11Harper gets steamed when he finds out his daughter is dating a 27-year-old man; Guber and Senate's students get ready to rumble in a debate.
E12The faculty decide to have a staff talent show to lighten the mood at Winslow. Lipschultz asks Ronnie to sing a duet with him at the talent…
E13A student's illness rattles Senate, who's haunted by feelings of futility; a teen's eating disorder upsets Lauren, who's also unnerved by a…
E14The students and teachers at Winslow High School deal with the tragedy of a car accident caused by a drunken driver; Senate tries to convin…
E15Controversy strikes Hanson's classroom over a reviled racial epithet; Ronnie draws ire for a class assignment to experience life as a homel…
E16Ronnie tries to persuade an 18-year-old student not to pose for a racy magazine; Guber and Meredith disagree about a classroom incident; La…
E17Ronnie catches a student performing a crime; two female students tell Marylin about their sexual conversations online with an older man.
E18Former student Dana Poole returns to Winslow, hoping to spend time with Senate for a class project; Lipschultz is confronted by a man who c…
E19Ronnie invites high-school staffers to a surprise birthday party for Senate at her apartment, but he shocks everybody by showing up with a…
E20As the prom approaches, female students outrage the faculty when they auction themselves as dates, while Harper deals with angry students w…
E21One of Senate's most promising students and his brother become entangled in criminal acts with fatal results; Hanson draws criticism for se…
E22Staff and students at Winslow High struggle to get on with their lives after a number of tragic events.