He teaches English to classes of motivated, over-achievers and is part of the "in" crowd of teachers at Bracken Middle School. After a summer spent in California with his best friend and fellow teacher Savage, banging a bounty of beautiful beach bunnies and drinking themselves into a constant stupor in California, Slater learns that things are going to change. A new principal, a few budget cuts, and the loss of a couple of teachers changes everything and Slater is suddenly teaching science to a bunch of sixth graders who could not give a crap about anything the guy at the front of the room has to say. Slater's even less happy about his circumstances when he finds out that the first subject he'll be teaching that year is sex-ed. And that he's going to have a student teacher to supervise. Things really can't get any worse, can they?