2. Home Sweet Home-School

Louis and Jessica clash over how to raise the kids and how to run the restaurant. When the boys get straight A's in school, Jessica decides that their school must be too easy and takes it upon herself to give them more homework and tutor them after class. She takes the same strict approach at the restaurant, so it's up to Louis to get her to lighten up on everyone.

Plot summary and ending

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When Eddie gets high marks in school, Jessica reacts by thinking that the schoolwork is not challenging enough. She tries to get him moved into gifted programs but the school does not have them. She then considers enrolling them in a Chinese Learning Center (CLC), but there are none in the area. Wanting to get Jessica and her incessant micromanaging away from the restaurant, Louis convinces her to home-school the boys. When she finds out that Louis is keeping her away from the restaurant in order to relax the strict regime she has implemented there, she brings the boys there so that she can teach and keep watch over the restaurant.

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