Becky Freeley gets a job as a guidance counselor at her old high school and assumes that her traumatic past is behind her, then learns that her high-school nemesis is the newly hired English teacher.

An attractive substitute teacher chooses Becky over Lisa, but his presence threatens Tim's job; one of Becky's troubled students gets exciting news.

A student's blog creates drama for the entire school; Becky feigns disinterest when she finds out that she is at the bottom of the "do-able" teachers list, but secretly tries to improve her ranking.