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15. Learning Curve

A headstrong schoolteacher clashes with Maggie and gives Holling little hope of gaining his high-school diploma; mother hen Joel fusses when Marilyn goes on an adventure in Seattle.

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Joel becomes so worried when Marilyn goes on vacation by herself to have an adventure in Seattle that, when she does not check into the hotel he arranged for her, he flies down to search for her. Holling studies to obtain his high school diploma. The new schoolteacher ( Jo Anderson ) is a former US Air Force pilot, but her views of a woman's role in society are completely at odds with Maggie's.

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