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Veronica never mentioned Claire's disability to Miss Genevieve.


* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When arguing with Miss Genevieve, Veronica mentions the DisabilityImmunity that Claire has, and how it makes her normal. Later, Veronica discovers that Claire's "haircut" had included removing the metal plate causing the "haircut" to not take effect.
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* DisabilityImmunity: Thanks to a metal plate in her skull, Claire is capable of retaining her original personality after her original "haircut". [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie At least until Miss Genevieve manages to remove it and re-apply the "haircut" offscreen.]]


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When arguing with Miss Genevieve, Veronica mentions the DisabilityImmunity that Claire has, and how it makes her normal. Later, Veronica discovers that Claire's "haircut" had included removing the metal plate causing the "haircut" to not take effect.


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* TechnicalEuphemism: "Haircut", for the process that brainwashes the girls into being obedient and compliant. While it does, in fact, change a girl's hairstyle, it does MUCH more, and doesn't even involve any cutting.
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* AdultFear: You send your daughter to a boarding school to learn manners and discipline, unaware that they’re brainwashing her to squash out her spirit and individuality.
** Claire tells Veronica that she believes the parents sent their daughters to Miss Genevieve’s because they’re scared seeing their daughters change from being sweet and affectionate with their parents to becoming distant and cynical.
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* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: {{Implied|Trope}}. When Veronica breaks Heather out of her trance, Heather is horrified to see herself in the mirror, taking particular grievance with her hair and pink slippers, and outright saying that she hates pink.
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* JadeColoredGlasses: Veronica wore these after coming home from summer camp. She UsedToBeASweetKid, but then found out all the heavy issues of the world, turning her into a cynical SoapboxSadie. When she feels as if there’s no escaping her fate of being {{Brainwashed}} into a StepfordSmiler, she questions if it would really be a bad thing if it meant she could see the world through RoseColoredGlasses again like she did before.

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* JadeColoredGlasses: Veronica wore these after coming home from summer camp. She UsedToBeASweetKid, but then found out all the heavy issues of the world, turning her into a cynical SoapboxSadie. When she feels as if there’s no escaping her fate of being {{Brainwashed}} into a StepfordSmiler, she questions if it would really be a bad thing if it meant she could see the world through RoseColoredGlasses Rose Colored Glasses again like she did before.
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* ThePowerOfRock: The Music/GreenDay song "She's a Rebel" is played to break the students out of their brainwashed states.

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* TookALevelInCynic: Veronica was a WideEyedIdealist before she went away to summer camp and learned about all the injustices of the world. She came back wearing JadeColoredGlasses and stirring up riots in cafeterias, concerning her parents enough to send her to Miss Genevieve’s in the hopes of bringing her back to the happy daughter they once knew.

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* TookALevelInCynic: Veronica was a WideEyedIdealist before she went away to summer camp and learned about all the injustices of the world. She came back wearing JadeColoredGlasses and stirring up riots in cafeterias, concerning her parents enough to send her to Miss Genevieve’s in the hopes of bringing her back to the happy daughter they once knew.knew.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Veronica hugged her parents and watched movies with them, believing the world was a great place. Then she went away to summer camp and learned about the serious issues plaguing the world, causing her to wear JadeColoredGlasses.
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* AdultFear: You send your daughter to a boarding school to learn manners and discipline, unaware that they’re brainwashing her to squash out her spirit and individuality.
** Claire tells Veronica that she believes the parents sent their daughters to Miss Genevieve’s because they’re scared seeing their daughters change from being sweet and affectionate with their parents to becoming distant and cynical.


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* JadeColoredGlasses: Veronica wore these after coming home from summer camp. She UsedToBeASweetKid, but then found out all the heavy issues of the world, turning her into a cynical SoapboxSadie. When she feels as if there’s no escaping her fate of being {{Brainwashed}} into a StepfordSmiler, she questions if it would really be a bad thing if it meant she could see the world through RoseColoredGlasses again like she did before.
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After being suspended for disrupting with her radical actions, a young activist is sent to a boarding school specializing in rehabilitating girls with a "streak". She soon finds out the school’s dark secret to reforming their students.

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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Where Veronica gets sent to. Miss Genevieve’s School for Difficult Girls takes girls who are rebellious, unladylike, and[=/=]or aloof with their parents, and have them {{Brainwashed}} into sweet and too cheerful [[ThePollyanna Pollyannas]] with perfect hair, style and manners.
* SoapboxSadie: Veronica. She gets suspended from public school because she raked up nine infractions within a single year with her radical acts of protest towards liberal views.
* TookALevelInCynic: Veronica was a WideEyedIdealist before she went away to summer camp and learned about all the injustices of the world. She came back wearing JadeColoredGlasses and stirring up riots in cafeterias, concerning her parents enough to send her to Miss Genevieve’s in the hopes of bringing her back to the happy daughter they once knew.

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