One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.

Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.

Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.

Herbie likes to enter contests.

Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.

A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.

Alice finds herself in the middle when she encourages a student to become a poet despite his father's wish that he enter his real estate business.

A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.

Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.

The Walt Whitman auto shop enters a car in a contest to see which vehicle gets the most miles per gallon. The actual race is unbearably slow, with each car conserving energy, and the scenes of Mr. Kaufman, Mr. Dixon, et al, trying to stay awake in the bleachers are hilarious. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.