The Facts of Life 1979 1988 A group of girls attending a boarding school experience the joys and the trials of adolescence under the guiding hand of housemother Edna Garrett, the Drummonds maid on Diffrent Strokes Later in the series, she is promoted to school dietitian, and four of the girls move into new quarters above the cafeteria She eventually leaves the school and opens her own business, with help from the girls