History Literature / Schooled

* LovableAlphaBitch: Naomi's friend Lena, ultimately turns into this. She's subservient to Zach for most of the book, a cheerleader, and is described as "willing to squeeze into size-zero jeans and apply makeup with a snow blower", maintaining a network of GossipyHens that is compared to a CIA intelligence-gathering team and being "kind of a bulldozer when it came to getting what she wanted", but is liked rather than feared by the rest of the students, isn't bossy towards her own circle of friends, leaves most of the efforts to torment Cap to others, and TookALevelInKindness towards Cap fairly quickly [[spoiler: after he saves the bus drivers life]].

* SameStoryDifferentNames: This is the second Korman book (after ''Literature/DontCareHigh'') to involve a pair of students making a clueless and socially awkward nonentity into their class president of a CrapsackWorld school with an EmbarrassingNickname (Don Carney High School/Don’t Care High and Claverage Middle School/C Average Middle School), only for the school to be revitalized by the new President as he becomes a SchoolIdol. The main difference is that the nomination is a cruel prank by the villains in this book and a well-meaning plan to drag the school out of its slump in ''Literature/DontCareHigh''. Also, Cap takes his responsibilities as president a lot more seriously than TheChosenZero in the earlier book.

* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much everybody except Cap and Flora, with a special mention to Zach, Sophie, and Hugh.

** Sophie doesn't come across pretty sympathetically when describing how the prank works to her mother, but has a point about how that's the kind of thing the local social worker should know by now.

* Commune: Cap and Rain are the only two remaining residents of Garland, a 60s hippie commune that's barely clinging to life in the present day.

** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Hugh and Zach mourn Cap's death.. but they know the rumor is bullshit, and only perpetuated it to make themselves look good. It's Zizagged in Hugh's case since he's aware of how dirty it is and is feeling guilty over it]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much everybody except Cap, with a special mention to Zach, Sophie, and Hugh.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Hugh is a testament to how being an outcast does ''not'' make you a nice guy. Despite being Cap's first friend, High does nothing to warn him about Zach and his manipulation, just so he can avoid being bullied. [[spoiler: And when Cap gains popularity, Hugh sets him up to get brutally tackled out of jealousy. He then takes advantage of the rumor of Cap being dead just so he can take advantage of Cap's reputation by claiming to have stood by him]].

** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Hugh and Zach mourn Cap's death.. but they know the rumor is bullshit, and only perpetuated it to make themselves look good]].

** Principal Kasigi's took a hands-off approach to students, that is to say he ignored the bullying of less popular students. It ends up biting him when Cap is elected student president as part of a cruel prank, [[spoiler: and Cap being unaware of the rules of finance, bankrupts the school's activity fund because of his need to be charitable and his own gullibility . After being forced to shut down the school dance, Kisagi realizes he should have paid more attention to his students]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Sophie doesn't come across pretty sympathetically when describing how the prank works to her mother, but has a point about how that's the kind of thing the local social worker should know by now.