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* AdoptionConflict: Danny Hanson, one of the teachers at Winslow High School gets temporary custody of his five-year-old niece when his sister is sent to rehab. While he knows the situation is only temporary, his wife is thrilled with having a little girl in their home, and even throws her a birthday party, which is ruined when Hanson's sister arrives and a loud argument breaks out about the girl's future. Although Hanson and his wife are given custody of his niece, their marriage begins breaking down, and the girl is given back to her mother. However, they make plans to work on their marriage and get his niece back, but the series was cancelled before that was resolved.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Sheryl Holt's favorite way of saving her ass, her website, and its content. After a while, Guber got really sick of dealing with her, so he turned the tables and used a simple loophole of his own: Since every time he suspended Sheryl and her father would send a lawyer, Guber simply did the math and realized how costly it will be in the long run if he keeps on suspending her ''every single day'' and then force the lawyer to wait for him for a few hours.
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A comedy-drama series created by Creator/DavidEKelley and airing on {{Creator/FOX}}, ''Boston Public'' basically told the story of the TeenDrama from the point of view of the teachers. It took place in Winslow High, a public high school in Boston, hence the show's title. ''Boston Public'' was basically ''Degrassi'' [[RecycledInSpace in America!]], except the teachers are the troubled ones.
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A comedy-drama series created by Creator/DavidEKelley and airing on {{Creator/FOX}}, ''Boston Public'' basically told the story of the TeenDrama from the point of view of the teachers. It took place in Winslow High, a public high school in Boston, hence the show's title. ''Boston Public'' was basically ''Degrassi'' [[RecycledInSpace [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in America!]], except the teachers are the troubled ones.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Both played straight and {{inverted|trope}}. The faculty ''does'' generally make attempts to help; they're just not always effective or successful. But parents? Forget it. They are always portrayed as either useless, pretentious, or overprotective of their kids; setting [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] double standards for children and teachers; and going for {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s about twice per episode. In most cases, this [[AllForNothing undermined every effort made]] by the teachers to help the kids, successful or not.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Both played straight and {{inverted|trope}}. The faculty ''does'' generally make attempts to help; they're just not always effective or successful. But parents? Forget it. They are always portrayed as either useless, pretentious, or overprotective of their kids; setting [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] {{hypocrit|e}}ical double standards for children and teachers; and going for {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s about twice per episode. In most cases, this [[AllForNothing undermined every effort made]] by the teachers to help the kids, successful or not.
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* BlackRepublican: Marilyn revealed that not only she was a Republican, but was against [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States affirmative action]], after a white student protested publicly against it (which, turns out, was for a petty reason - a black student was admitted into Harvard with GPA lower than his, but only by a ''tenth of a point'' and the white student was already admitted into Yale). Principal Harper and especially teacher Marla aren't sympathetic (Marla basically calls her a traitor), but during a debate, she explains her point of view concisely which brings more understanding. She also reveals that despite being Republican, she's for a 3-day wait period for gun control, against the death penalty, and regarding prayer in schools, she says that "she's a Republican, not [[Series/The700Club Pat Robertson]]."
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* BlackRepublican: Marilyn revealed that not only she was a Republican, but was against [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States affirmative action]], after a white student protested publicly against it (which, turns out, was for a petty reason - a black student was admitted into Harvard with GPA lower than his, but only by a ''tenth of a point'' and the white student was already admitted into Yale). Principal Harper and especially teacher Marla aren't sympathetic (Marla basically calls her a traitor), but during a debate, she explains her point of view concisely which brings more understanding. She also reveals that despite being Republican, she's for a 3-day wait period for gun control, against the death penalty, and regarding prayer in schools, she says that "she's a Republican, not [[Series/The700Club Pat Robertson]].Robertson."
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** In a Season 2 episode, Danny leads a class discussion about the n-word and receives lots of flack for it from Marla and Steven, the latter of whom actually ends up taking over the discussion after Danny, in a fit of anger at being denied the chance to explore the double standard that exists around the racial slur, suggests he do so.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Principal Steven Harper is bald and black.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The faculty and the students are constantly growing in numbers, while some of them quit or graduate. It's even impossible to point out the main character and if it's the school itself.
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* SatelliteCharacter: Despite impressive cast, the series circles almost entirely around them and everyone else is just an extra that exists only as long as they interact with the main cast. This is particularly notable with any sort of love interests, especially if they are Gruber's.
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* StrawmanBall: A recurring plot device throughout the series is to either introduce a random new character (or give some bit character) a "wrong" stance and majority of the cast facing them off. First season at least was careful enough to use it for the B plots, but from second season onward, it became part of the formula to use this trope.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: At one point, Guber takes a meeting with the owner of a porn site who returns a VHS someone sent him of stolen security footage from the girls' locker room. The owner is a quiet, polite man in a nice suit who explains that all of his models are of age and he verifies each one before featuring them on his website. As such, he refuses to accept unsolicited videos that are filmed without consent featuring girls who probably aren't over eighteen.
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* BlackRepublican: Marilyn revealed that not only she was a Republican, but was against [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States affirmative action]], after a white student protested publicly against it (which, turns out, was for a petty reason - a black student was admitted into Harvard with GPA lower than his, but only by a ''tenth of a point'' and the white student was already admitted into Yale). Principal Harper and especially teacher Marla aren't sympathetic (Marla basically calls her a traitor), but during a debate, she explains her point of view concisely which brings more understanding. She also reveals that despite being Republican, she's for a 3-day wait period for gun control, against the death penalty, and regarding prayer in schools, she says that "she's a Republican, not [[Series/The700Club Pat Robertson]]."
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Harvey is facing termination for his bigotry in season one, Kevin Jackson, a Black student speaks out against it. The following exchange is what saves Harvey's job:
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-->'''Kevin:''' Because he will. That man will get my Black ass into college.
'''Steven Harper:''' It doesn't offend you when he says it's his job to get your Black ass into college?
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* LoggingOnToTheFourthWall: Sheryl's website, holt45.com. Such features were news, blogs, polls, and her flash movies of the school's staff, viewable in full (unlike on the show). According to the Wayback Machine, it began redirecting to the Fox front page no earlier than 2003, when the fourth and final season began.
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** Lauren Davis engages in a borderline case as she begins a relationship with a ''former'' student named Daniel Evans, who is revealed to be a [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]].
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** Harvey, Marla, and Harry should be ''all'' fired right in the first episode for their quirks and highly questionable actions, yet they're part of the regular cast.
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** Early in Season 1, there's Walter Harrellson, who pretty much expects the teachers to give his son Jason the lessons he needs.
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* BreakTheHaughty: This happens to Guber in a Season 1 episode. Guber orders Harvey to go see a doctor to ascertain his mental state. Later, he receives an invitation to conduct an orchestra in Northampton, which requires him to drive for two hours to get to the symphony. Once Guber arrives, he's devastated to find out that Northampton doesn't have a symphony. He returns to Winslow and goes on the warpath, searching for the one responsible for pranking him; he first suspects Harry, then a visiting Milton, and Lisa Greer. The true culprit is revealed to be Harvey. Guber is dumbfounded.
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** In "Chapter Four," John [=LaBlonde=]'s blame Steven for their son's suicide.
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* EpicFail: The student body gives the Teacher of the Year award to Guber in an attempt at BehavioralConditioning in order to get him to lighten up. The condition works but not as they want it. Instead of viewing it as negative punishment (removing their hatred in an attempt to get him to change his behavior) as the students intended, he views it as positive reinforcement (the students appreciated the job he was doing) and continued to act as before. They seem to not have learned from their parents not to reward unwanted behavior.
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* EpicFail: The In the Season 1 finale, the student body gives the Teacher of the Year award to Guber in an attempt at BehavioralConditioning in order to [[TookALevelInKindness get him to lighten up. The condition works up]]. It works, but not as they want it. Instead of viewing it as negative punishment (removing their hatred in an attempt to get him to change his behavior) as the students intended, he Guber views it as positive reinforcement (the students appreciated the job he was doing) and continued to act as before. They seem to not have learned from their parents not to reward unwanted behavior.
** There was also Jenna Miller, a pretty teacher who once counseled a male student (who had been ogling her ass and even started to reach out to touch it) that smart guys get the chicks with "nice asses." Guber even describes her as "a nasty little thing."
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Gruber took a lot of flak for firing Riley, who failed to report his fellow teacher's affair with a student. However, in having an affair with a student, Buttle was committing sexual abuse. Riley, as a teacher, was a mandatory reporter, required to report any instance of child abuse he discovered. This is the law, and the law doesn't care about how anyone feels, or if the abuser is a friend. Legally, Riley did not have the option to give Buttle the choice to end the relationship or turn himself in on his own. Failing to carry out his legal duty made Riley a criminal. Similarly, Gruber had no choice but to fire Riley for failing to carry out his duty as a mandatory reporter.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The series started off featuring things that regularly happen in inner city high schools. Later seasons had really weird things happen, like a student getting electrocuted and thinking he's Jesus.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The series started off featuring things that regularly happen in inner city high schools. Later seasons had really weird things happen, like a student getting electrocuted and thinking he's Jesus.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Gruber In Season 1, Guber took a lot of flak for firing Kevin Riley, who failed to report his fellow teacher's Milton Buttle's affair with Lisa Greer, a student. However, in having an affair with a student, Buttle Milton was committing sexual abuse. Riley, Kevin, as a teacher, was a mandatory reporter, required to report any instance of child abuse he discovered. This is the law, and the law doesn't care about how anyone feels, feels or if the abuser is a personal friend. Legally, Riley Kevin did not have the option to give Buttle Milton the choice to end the relationship or turn himself in on his own. Failing to carry out his legal duty made Riley Kevin a criminal. Similarly, Gruber Guber had no choice but to fire Riley Kevin for failing to carry out his duty as a mandatory reporter.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The series started off featuring things that regularly happen ininner city inner-city high schools. Later seasons had really weird things happen, like a student getting electrocuted and thinking he's Jesus.
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* LesbianJock: Tina Knowles, a phys ed teacher responsible for her cheerleaders performing a ''very'' suggestive dance routine, was suspected of being this in Season 1.
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* LesbianJock: Tina Knowles, a phys ed teacher responsible for her cheerleaders performing a ''very'' suggestive dance routine, was suspected of being this in Season 1.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Sheryl Holt's favorite way of saving her ass, her website, and its content. After a while, Guber got really sick of dealing with her, so he [[KickTheSonOfABitch turned the tables and used a simple loophole of his own]]--since every time he suspended Sheryl and her father would send a lawyer, Guber simply did the math and realized how costly it will be in the long run if he keeps on suspending her ''every single day'' and then force the lawyer to wait for him for a few hours.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Sheryl Holt's favorite way of saving her ass, her website, and its content. After a while, Guber got really sick of dealing with her, so he [[KickTheSonOfABitch turned the tables and used a simple loophole of his own]]--since own]]: Since every time he suspended Sheryl and her father would send a lawyer, Guber simply did the math and realized how costly it will be in the long run if he keeps on suspending her ''every single day'' and then force the lawyer to wait for him for a few hours.
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* MortonsFork: Invoked [[spoiler:but ultimately subverted]] in a Season 1 episode. A linebacker for the school football team is [[spoiler:seemingly]] gay and expects to share the same accommodations, including shower facilities, as the other players. The teachers discuss the dilemma they face: if they deny his request, he will sue for anti-gay discrimination; if they grant it, the other players could sue for sexual harassment. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a false dilemma, as the player isn't even gay.]]
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* MortonsFork: Invoked [[spoiler:but ultimately subverted]] in a Season 1 episode. "Chapter Three." A linebacker for the school football team is [[spoiler:seemingly]] gay and expects to share the same accommodations, including shower facilities, as the other players. The teachers discuss the dilemma they face: if If they deny his request, he will sue for anti-gay discrimination; if they grant it, the other players could sue for sexual harassment. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a false dilemma, as the player isn't even gay.]]
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** In a Season 2 episode, Danny leads a class discussion about the n-word and receives lots of flack for it from Marla and Steven, the latter of whom actually ends up taking over the discussion after Danny suggests he do so.
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** In a Season 2 episode, Danny leads a class discussion about the n-word and receives lots of flack for it from Marla and Steven, the latter of whom actually ends up taking over the discussion after Danny Danny, in a fit of anger at being denied the chance to explore the double standard that exists around the racial slur, suggests he do so.
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* NapoleonDelusion: In the fourth season, a student gets electrocuted and believes he's UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.
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* NapoleonDelusion: In the fourth season, a student student, Peter Feldman, gets electrocuted and believes he's UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Buttle begins a relationship with Lisa Greer, whom he believes is a college student but later learns is a student at Winslow High. He ultimately ends up getting fired for it.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Milton Buttle begins a relationship with Lisa Greer, whom he believes is a college student but later learns is a student at Winslow High. He ultimately ends up getting fired for it.
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* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Harvey is completely oblivious about how bad his bigotry is. He doesn't even think about himself as a bigot and when he finally realizes it, it's a HeroicBSOD for him.
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* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Harvey is completely oblivious about how bad his bigotry is. He doesn't even think about of himself as a bigot and when he finally realizes it, it's a HeroicBSOD for him.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Gruber took a lot of flak for firing Riley, who failed to report his fellow teacher's affair with a student. However, in having an affair with a student, Buttle was committing sexual abuse. Riley, as a teacher, was a mandatory reporter, required to report any instance of child abuse he discovered. This is the law, and the law doesn't care about how anyone feels, or if the abuser is a friend. Legally, Riley did not have the option to give Buttle the choice to end the relationship or turn himself in on his own. Similarly, Gruber did not have the choice but to fire Riley for failing to carry out his duty as a mandatory reporter.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Gruber took a lot of flak for firing Riley, who failed to report his fellow teacher's affair with a student. However, in having an affair with a student, Buttle was committing sexual abuse. Riley, as a teacher, was a mandatory reporter, required to report any instance of child abuse he discovered. This is the law, and the law doesn't care about how anyone feels, or if the abuser is a friend. Legally, Riley did not have the option to give Buttle the choice to end the relationship or turn himself in on his own. Failing to carry out his legal duty made Riley a criminal. Similarly, Gruber did not have the had no choice but to fire Riley for failing to carry out his duty as a mandatory reporter.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Gruber took a lot of flak for firing Riley, who failed to report his fellow teacher's affair with a student. However, in having an affair with a student, Buttle was committing sexual abuse. Riley, as a teacher, was a mandatory reporter, required to report any instance of child abuse he discovered. This is the law, and the law doesn't care about how anyone feels, or if the abuser is a friend. Legally, Riley did not have the option to give Buttle the choice to end the relationship or turn himself in on his own. Similarly, Gruber did not have the choice but to fire Riley for failing to carry out his duty as a mandatory reporter.
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A comedy-drama series created by Creator/DavidEKelley and airing on {{FOX}}, ''Boston Public'' basically told the story of the TeenDrama from the point of view of the teachers. It took place in Winslow High, a public high school in Boston, hence the show's title. ''Boston Public'' was basically ''Degrassi'' [[AC: [[RecycledInSpace In America!]]]], except the teachers are the troubled ones.
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A comedy-drama series created by Creator/DavidEKelley and airing on {{FOX}}, {{Creator/FOX}}, ''Boston Public'' basically told the story of the TeenDrama from the point of view of the teachers. It took place in Winslow High, a public high school in Boston, hence the show's title. ''Boston Public'' was basically ''Degrassi'' [[AC: [[RecycledInSpace In America!]]]], except the teachers are the troubled ones.
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* RunningGag: InUniverse. The students have a joke to riotously cheer Harvey singing "If I Were a Rich Man" during assembly, despite his being bad at it. It's been going on for ''20 years'' and he has no clue, even refusing to believe a colleague when they told him.
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* RunningGag: InUniverse. The students have a joke to riotously cheer Harvey singing "If I Were a Rich Man" during assembly, the variety show, despite his being bad at it. It's been going on for ''20 years'' and he has no clue, even refusing to believe a colleague when they told him.
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* RunningGag: InUniverse. The students have a yearly pledge to riotously cheer Harvey singing the same song during assembly, despite his being bad at it.
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* RunningGag: InUniverse. The students have a yearly pledge a joke to riotously cheer Harvey singing the same song "If I Were a Rich Man" during assembly, despite his being bad at it.it. It's been going on for ''20 years'' and he has no clue, even refusing to believe a colleague when they told him.
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* RunningGag: InUniverse. The students have a yearly pledge to riotously cheer Harvey singing the same song during assembly, despite his being bad at it.
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* EpicFail: The student body gives the Teacher of the Year award to Guber in an attempt at BehavioralConditioning in order to get him to lighten up. The condition works but not as they want it. Instead of viewing it as negative punishment (removing their hatred in an attempt to get him to change his behavior) as the students intended, he views it as positive reinforcement (the students appreciated the job he was doing) and continued to act as before. They seem to not have learned from their parents not to reward unwanted behavior.