When diverse students of Brooker High learn their bully for a principal plans to become State School Superintendent, they knew it’s only time before the misery she inflicts in other students.
Tropes used in Kids in America include:
- All School Violations Are Equal: Weller treats any forms of school violation as this.
- Alpha Bitch: Donna Weller
- Dean Bitterman[context?]
- Sadist Evil Principal: both for the price one
- Equal Opportunity Offender: She goes after a diverse group of students… Bookworms, Jerk Jocks, and teachers who are kid-friendly are fair game.
- 0% Approval Rating: By the student body, but eight-percent by the general public.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Charlotte fears the fashion police would be on into force along with Weller’s campaign to suppress students’ free speech.
- Big Man on Campus/ Bullying a Dragon: The students mean business on their war against Weller.
- No Students Gets Left Behind: It’s called strength numbers.
- Determinator / Plucky Girl: Weller soon learns that the students don’t give up.
- Cool People Rebel Against Authority: The student body's protest against Weller... well, Weller deserve it.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: The same-sex kiss-in protest... mind you the characters taking part are teenagers.
- Loophole Abuse: Weller likely knows that the First Amendment cause applies to congress, and schools can enforce censorship. the students, on the other hand, just call the voters since they found loophole too, there no laws against telling voters about the truth about Weller.
- Pay Evil Unto Evil: Rebelling, of course... even if it means vandalism.
- Rousing Speech: A hospital stay isn’t going to stop Lawrence.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Will Ducker wasn't going to let Weller silent the students and gets involved. Two coaches also give in to the same-sex protest.
- Serious Business: Protecting their rights and rebelling against an abusive principal in order to protect other students in their school distinct takes commitment and the students stick to it, regardless of the consequences.
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Josh Stolberg explain that he was reading news articles about three women who took legal actions against their schools over the issues of free speech.
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