Lazy isn’t the only member of the Griffin community with tribulations, however.
Somehow Lazy has to transport 99 students to the funeral. Finally, the mother of senior Morgan Goldfine, a generous benefactor to Griffin, succumbs after a long battle with cancer. She feels guilty about cheating on her loving husband with one of Griffin’s teachers, the handsome, WASP-y Doug McNamee, who calls her his “Jewish Princess.” Even worse, it’s “early admission notification time,” so students’ mothers are threatening suicide if their offspring are not admitted to Harvard or Yale. She’s not allowed to smoke in her office, which she perceives as an affront to her authority. She just turned 43, a fact of life she’s dismayed about. Troubles are piling up for Kathryn “Lazy” Hoffman, headmistress of Griffin School, grades K-12. The classrooms and boardrooms of an elite Manhattan prep school are plumbed for plot and pathos.
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