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* [[Abusive Parents]]: [[Dysfunction Junction|Well, naturally]].
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Or rather just Maxine wanting Earl. Which results in
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Possibly the reason why none of the girls complained when it was created.
* [[An Aesop]]: Frequently used, in all formats of the trope.
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** Standing up to the woman he loves and putting himself between a thug {{spoiler|with a knife}} and a student, all in one day? Who expected that from Chalky?
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Lindsay is quick to offer a death threat to anyone who hurts her sister.
** And increasingly, Mr Mead tends to lose it whenever one of his students are endangered or harmed.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The second season finale, everything seems to be going right for the school and then a teacher gets stabbed to death right before the closing credits. It was left open as to whether she was actually dead until the start of the next season, [[Reality Subtext|probably because the actress was involved in contract negotiations.]]
* [[British Brevity]]: Well and truly averted by the 20-hour Series 3.
** The opening episode of
** Plus another season also of 20 episodes!
* [[Coming Out Story]]: {{spoiler|Josh}}.
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* [[Crapsack World]]: One reviewer described it, not entirely inaccurately, as being set in a town that resembles a cross between [[Divine Comedy|Dante's Inferno]] and Baghdad.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
** In Series 5, we find out that Lindsay James {{spoiler|was sexually abused by her father}} leading to {{spoiler|her eventually murdering him
** Rachel Mason {{spoiler|was revealed to have worked as a prostitute before becoming a teacher
** Bex appears to have had one, from the time she was missing.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Lindsay has a few moments like this,
* [[Driven to Suicide]]:
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Economy Cast]]
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** Elizabeth Berrington aka Ruby Fry, and an uncredited teacher played by a blonde extra.
** And more recently pop star [[wikipedia:Karen David|Karen David]] as Francesca Montoya.
* [[Freak-Out]]:
* [[The Good Old British Comp]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Nearly ''always'' Grantly Budgen, or Tom Clarkson.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]:
* [[I Object]]: Donte and Chlo's first wedding.
* [[Katy Perry]]: Her music is sometimes used as background music.▼
* [[Kidanova]]: Aiden, who manages to get two girls pregnant during series 7.▼
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]: In one of the most bizzarre [[Mood Whiplash|Mood Whiplashes]] ever.}}▼
▲* {{Jerkass}:
** Ralph Mellor.
** And Lewis Seddon, to a rather extreme degree, though he eventually reforms.
▲* [[Katy Perry]]: Her music is sometimes used as background music.
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* [[Large Ham]]: "Amy is NOT BANKSY!"
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: Chloe's hair-style goes up when she separates from Donte for a while.
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** Later, Miss Mason, who is also a [[Stern Teacher]] and a [[Non-Giving-Up-School Guy|Non Giving Up School Person]].
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Mika, who is stated on the official website to have gone to university.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]:
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Karla, the girl who has Asperger's syndrome.
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: Paul Langley and Bolton Smillie.
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