If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.