Anyone getting the bug where you automatically only work with Fred in school all the time?
As has been said, it's due to the rewrite. Mrs. Jennings' progression is now different. You have to pick the "Talk with Fred" option during the morning class before recess in order to progress past the first stage now. It's not very intuitive, especially when you're used to the old progression.
I'm not done with it it, but I like the rewrite so far. It makes me sad that this is now abandoned, because I would've liked to see more revamps like this. Seeing the school interior and the introduction of the principal normally would be exciting, but now it's just depressing.
Some of it feels rushed, though. I wonder how much of it is due to him quitting. Not sure how much he finished before he called it quits. For example, Mr. Jennings is called Carter after the first day of school. However, he was already called Mike in Mrs. Jennings' bar dialogue. And that dialogue is still untouched, so he's called both Carter and Mike now. To make things worse, during some of the school interior scenes, he's called Jonathon, which is Ms. Amos' boyfriend's name. That's kind of a mess.
(partly because the Mother content was so rushed and sadly, it still is)
Yeah, the mother's progression has never felt good. Probably a byproduct of the fact that Nergal doesn't like her character, (he's said that a few times in the past) so she had low priority. I'm sure it would've been improved eventually, but obviously it's not going to happen now.