History Literature / DontCareHigh

* AmbiguousDisorder: The way Mike Otis tries to avoid interacting with other people and takes a lot of bizarre occurrences in stride without trying to understand them better could mean that he's on the autism spectrum or has a similar disorder, but his specific behavioral condition (if any) is never confirmed.

->'''Paul:''' Mike, do you have any idea how great an achievement it is to make a working car out of ''nothing''?\\

* MemeticBadass: Mike, due to him getting the credit for every improvement or feat done by either the school itself of Paul and Sheldon.

** A minor student named Dick Oliver scores a 95% on a quiz about Creator/WilliamShakespeare by keeping up with the assigned study materials but someone ends up spending weeks if not months thinking that the English class is a cooking course, and still thinks that even after turning in the assignment.

* ApatheticStudents: ''Nobody'' gives a crap at this school. At least to start with...

* RecurringExtra: Shopaholic Cindy Schwartz, gum-chewing Rosalie Gladstone, and reckless driver Phil Gonzalez are all classmates of the main characters who appear for a sentence or two every other chapter or so and get caught up in the hype over their new student body President. They don’t greatly affect the plot, but add some color to it.

* SameSexTriplets: Shirley, Rose and Lucy [=LaPaz=] are triplet sisters.

* DitzyGenius: A minor student named Dick Oliver scores a 95% on a quiz about Creator/WilliamShakespeare by keeping up with the assigned study materials but someone ends up spending weeks if not months thinking that the English class is a cooking course, and still thinks that even after turning in the assignment.

Don Carey High School has earned it's nickname "Don't Care High" many times over. The students can barely be bothered to show up for class, the teachers are burnouts or overly temperamental, the sports teams and extracurricular activities are nearly deserted. New student Paul Abrams is stunned by the state of the school. His new friend Sheldon ropes him into a grand scheme to build up isolated loner Mike Otis as a hero of the school, just to get them interested in something. And when the dam breaks, the change is something to remember.

Don Carey High School has earned it's nickname "Don't Care High" many times over. The students can barely be bothered to show up for class, the teachers are burnouts or overly temperamental, the sports teams and extracurricular activities are nearly deserted. New student Paul Abrams is stunned by the state of the school. His new friend Sheldon ropes him into a grand scheme to build up isolated loner Mike Otis as a hero of the school, just to got them interested in something. And when the dam breaks, the change is something to remember.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The way Mike Otis tries to avoid interacting with other people and takes a lot of bizarre occurrences in stride without trying to understand them better could mean that he's on the autism spectrum or has a similar disorder, but this is never confirmed.

* BecauseItAmusedMe: The reason that Sheldon starts everything.

* CharacterDevelopment: A whole school worth of it.
* TheDon: PlayedForLaughs with Feldstein, who runs a monopoly on the schools locker, trades favors (always food) for good ones and can try to lock out anyone who seriously crosses him.

* SameSexTriplets: Shirley, Rose and Lucy [=LaPaz=].

* TwinSwitch: Or rather triplet switch, the [=LaPaz=]'s sometimes switch classes with each other to do better on tests. They are impressed when Mike (or rather Paul pretending that Mike told him) figures this out.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: The teachers are deeply frustrated with the students being lazy or stupid, but once their actually getting focused and invested in things some of the teachers can't keep up and want the old ways back (although others are happy with the change but just find all of the Mike Otis hype too annoying to deal with).

* DorkHorseCandidate: As a gag, Sheldon and Paul select Mike completely at random to nominate as class president... and due to snowballing events he becomes an icon of cool to the entire student body, much to his bewilderment. The hitch of the story is, from beginning to end, Mike is such a nondescript cipher that they never figure out anything at all about him. Not his real address, not his phone number, not his pastimes, they never see his home or his family, all his previous addresses and schools don't or no longer exist... they even go so far as to break into his confidential records and find literally nothing in it. And at the end of the story Mike simply disappears — "moved to another town" — and his forwarding address is nonexistent as well. A cipher from beginning to end.

* DorkHorseCandidate: As a gag, Sheldon and Paul select Mike completely at random to nominate as class president... and due to snowballing events he becomes an icon of cool to the entire student body, much to his bewilderment. The hitch of the story is, from beginning to end, the kid they pick is such a nondescript cipher that they never figure out anything at all about him. Not his real address, not his phone number, not his pastimes, they never see his home or his family, all his previous addresses and schools don't or no longer exist... they even go so far as to break into his confidential records and find literally nothing in it. And at the end of the story the kid simply disappears — "moved to another town" — and his forwarding address is nonexistent as well. A cipher from beginning to end.

Don Carney High School has earned it's nickname "Don't Care High" many times over. The students can barely be bothered to show up for class, the teachers are burnouts or overly temperamental, the sports teams and extracurricular activities are nearly deserted. New student Paul Abrams is stunned by the state of the school. His new friend Sheldon ropes him into a grand scheme to build up isolated loner Mike Otis as a hero of the school, just to got them interested in something. And when the dam breaks, the change is something to remember.

* DorkHorseCandidate: in ''Don't Care High'', two friends at the most boring, lackluster high school in the city, completely as a gag, select a random nobody student to promote as class president... and due to snowballing events he becomes an icon of cool to the entire student body, much to his bewilderment. The hitch of the story is, from beginning to end, the kid they pick is such a nondescript cipher that they never figure out anything at all about him. Not his real address, not his phone number, not his pastimes, they never see his home or his family, all his previous addresses and schools don't or no longer exist... they even go so far as to break into his confidential records and find literally nothing in it. And at the end of the story the kid simply disappears — "moved to another town" — and his forwarding address is nonexistent as well. A cipher from beginning to end.

Don Carney High School has earned it's nickname "Don't Care High" many times over. The students can barely be bothered to show up for class, the teachers are burnouts or overly temperamental, the sports teams and extracurricular activities are nearly deserted. New student Paul Abrams is stunned by the state of the school. His new friend Sheldon rope him into a grand scheme to build up isolated loner Mike Otis as a hero of the school, just to got them interested in something. And when the dam breaks, the change is something to remember.

DorkHorseCandidate: in ''Don't Care High'', two friends at the most boring, lackluster high school in the city, completely as a gag, select a random nobody student to promote as class president... and due to snowballing events he becomes an icon of cool to the entire student body, much to his bewilderment. The hitch of the story is, from beginning to end, the kid they pick is such a nondescript cipher that they never figure out anything at all about him. Not his real address, not his phone number, not his pastimes, they never see his home or his family, all his previous addresses and schools don't or no longer exist... they even go so far as to break into his confidential records and find literally nothing in it. And at the end of the story the kid simply disappears — "moved to another town" — and his forwarding address is nonexistent as well. A cipher from beginning to end.

* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Principal has abandoned any effort to exert authority over the school, and the students don't even know his name,. He just spends all day in his office, working on PA announcements which emphasize the SuckySchool nature of the place and which he reads off like comedy sketches while doing his best to avoid everything else.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: The teachers are deeply frustrated with the students being lazy or stupid, but once their actually getting focused and invested in things many of the teachers can't keep up and want the old ways back.

* NobodySeesTheBoss: The Principal has abandoned any effort to exert authority over the school, and the students don't even know his name,. He just spends all day in his office, working on PA announcements which emphasize the SuckySchool nature of the place and which he reads off like comedy sketches while doing his best to avoid everything else.