The Good Teacher is a film about the lives of school teachers in a low-income urban area and the challenges they face while trying to provide a quality education to students. Dominique Daily is a first year school teacher who gives up his football career after an injury to teach Math at Louis Jones high school while struggling to cope with his short-lived life long dream of being a football star.
While performing at her first show, a runaway is horrified to discover that her chosen family, an LA-based hardcore punk band, are preying on her vulnerability.
