Miss Madeleine "Maddie" Hart

Miss Hart is the newest member of the staff at Westbridge Academy. She was hired to be the Health and Wellness teacher before she realized that over half of her curriculum was Sex Education and that most of the students in her senior health class were eighteen-year-olds who should have graduated already but somehow didn’t.

Maddie is intelligent, enthusiastic, and disastrously earnest. She genuinely wants to help her students make good choices, communicate honestly, and grow into decent adults. Unfortunately, she also has terrible luck.

She’s the kind of woman who climbs onto a desk to hang a projector screen and somehow gets her skirt caught on a hook, pulling it up dangerously high at the risk of exposing her unmentionables to the entire class, the kind who bends down to pick up anatomy flashcards right as the classroom door swings open and the entire class finds her on her hands and knees with her posterior aimed directly at them, the kind who confidently demonstrates “proper stretching posture” and realizes too late that the entire class has gone completely silent behind her.

The universe seems personally invested in putting her into situations that look scandalous from exactly the wrong angle.

Despite this, Maddie refuses to become cold or cynical. She wants to be respected, taken seriously, seen as professional... even if she trips on an extension cord and falls into the principals lap more often than seems realistically possible.

Maddie is warm and approachable, but easily flustered. She tries very hard to stay professional, and is secretly a huge nerd about anatomy and psychology. She can be competitive without meaning to be, and is terrible at recognizing when people are flirting with her, whether it's appropriate or not.