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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Whenever residents of the nearby towns are shown, they're depicted wearing their respective school colors. Eastpoint is green and copper, Challis is red and white, Salmon is orange and black, Clark Valley is blue and red, and Idaho Falls is black with orange stripes.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Challis High School's (along with several other schools) reaction to playing against Westpoint. Clark Valley students are a [[MassOhCrap little less dignified.]]
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* SparseListOfRules: The series is built around this. Given that there are apparently well over 9000 rules Rowan came up with, it's unlikely we'll see them all.

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-->'''Kimberly''': Really, I'm fine. \\
'''Paramedic''': That's what you said the last 86 times.



* MagicMusic: The band has a song called "Battle Mode," which may or may not warp reality.

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* MagicMusic: The band has a song called "Battle Mode," which may or may not is accepted to warp reality.reality, one way or another.
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Westpoint High School, located in Eastpoint Idaho, is not a normal place by a long shot. There are mad scientists, magic users, werewolves, dryads, androids, aliens, portals, time travel, spacial anomalies, and students with no common sense. Rowan Wolford is a former student, who has decided to share some stories of her time there.



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Westpoint High School, located in Eastpoint Idaho, is not a normal place by a long shot. There are mad scientists, magic users, werewolves, dryads, androids, aliens, portals, time travel, spacial anomalies, and students with no common sense. Rowan Wolford is a former student, who has decided to share some stories from her old high school. Which sounds pretty normal, except [[AcademyOfAdventure this school isn't.]] Being located in a town full of mages and mad scientists, Westpoint High School [[WeirdnessMagnet attracts chaos like a magnet.]] Dealing with prowling monsters, malevolent technology, and spells gone wrong is the norm. Sometimes the students and teachers are at fault. Sometimes crazy just happens. Fortunately, Rowan picked up a lot of helpful tips in her time there.


there, and is happy to share.

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* BottomlessPits: There's one on campus, which a student created for a final project.

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* BottomlessPits: There's one on campus, which a student [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext created for a final project.]]



* GhostTown: There's apparently a lot in that part of the state, which may or may not be a result of wendigo attacks.

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* GhostTown: There's apparently a lot in that part of the state, which may or may not be a hopefully aren't actually the result of wendigo attacks.



* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable: The normal middle school drama is amplified by the two forces known as The Dread and The Dumb. Also, Nine Rings Middle School was built on the site where crazed mountain men performed blood rituals, which probably doesn't help.

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* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable: The normal middle school drama is amplified by the two forces known as The Dread and The Dumb. Also, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nine Rings Middle School School]] was built on the site where crazed mountain men performed blood rituals, which probably doesn't help.

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* AnachronicOrder: The episodes are not presented chronologically, and sometimes even the chronology within an episode is ambiguous.



* BecomingTheCostume: One student enchanted a mask to turn himself into a monster for Halloween. Unfortunately, he got a migraine trying to process all those eyes and tentacles.



* CassandraTruth: The people of Clark Valley didn't listen to repeated warnings from other towns concerning Eastpoint's nature. They learned the hard way.

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* CassandraTruth: The people of Clark Valley didn't listen to repeated warnings from other towns concerning Eastpoint's nature. [[PyrrhicVictory They learned the hard way.]]


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* GiantSpider: A couple of students tried to engineer one. Pesky biology kept getting in the way.


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* SirSwearsalot: Old Man Yates was one, at least until he went too far and was saddled with a curse that censored it all.
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* CassandraTruth: The people of Clark Valley didn't listen to repeated warnings from other towns concerning Eastpoint's nature. They learned the hard way.

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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Subverted. The Student Council is so inconsequential that it took Rowen four months to learn that a flying fox had been elected president.

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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Subverted. The Student Council is so inconsequential that it took Rowen Rowan four months to learn that a flying fox had been elected president.



* ExtranormalInstitute: Unsurprisingly. Besides all the [[AcademyOfAdventure supernatural chaos that occurs on a daily basis]], the school offers a practical magic class.

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* ExtranormalInstitute: Unsurprisingly. Besides containing all the [[AcademyOfAdventure supernatural chaos that occurs on a daily basis]], the school offers a practical magic class.



* GhostTown: There's apparently a lot in this part of the state.

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* GhostTown: There's apparently a lot in this that part of the state.state, which may or may not be a result of wendigo attacks.



* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rowen claims there's nearly 500 variations of the vampire curse. None of them are welcomed into Eastpoint.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rowen Rowan claims there's nearly 500 variations of the vampire curse. None of them are welcomed into Eastpoint.


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* POWCamp: Eastpoint served as one during World War II. Prisoners were allowed to wander freely, since they had nowhere to run.
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* GentleGiant: Peony, and by extension the entire cheerleader team. They're built like tanks and are capable of fending off rampaging buffalos, but still enjoy doing cheers and using pom-poms.


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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[SmallNameBigEgo Adam Lennard's]] overinflated ego led to him attempting a job he wasn't remotely qualified for. He ended up with two broken arms.


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* OrchestralBombing: The Basketball Chamber Orchestra plays mostly horror music. It works great for psyching out the other team.


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* RetconningTheWiki: When one student set up a wiki for the school, only a small portion of editors used it for its intended purpose. The rest just wrote whatever they wanted. [[NotSoAboveItAll Including Rowan.]]
-->'''Rowan''': Not my proudest moment, but it was pretty therapeutic.

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* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Kimberly Bell was hospitalized so many times that it took her an extra three years to graduate.



* CasualDangerDialogue: Rowan's job among her group of friends was to lighten the mood in dangerous situations by cracking jokes.



* TheFaceless: Jayden O'Connor is invisible, and the one time he's depicted as being visible he's shown from the back.



* PlaygroundSong: Some students trapped on a school bus start singing these to pass the time. The bus driver decided that going out to face a herd of hostile moose was preferable to listening to these.

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* PlaygroundSong: Some students trapped on a school bus start started singing these to pass the time. The bus driver decided that going out to face a herd of hostile moose was preferable to listening to these.listening.



* SelectiveObliviousness: Mrs. Wilson is apparently blind to anything remotely supernatural.

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* SelectiveObliviousness: Mrs. Wilson is apparently blind to anything remotely supernatural.supernatural. Not even being mauled by vampires will snap her out of it.



* StuffedIntoALocker: One student actually stuffed Mrs. Wilson into his locker, in retaliation for her not believing there was a portal inside.

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* StuffedIntoALocker: Played with. One student actually stuffed Mrs. Wilson into his locker, in retaliation for her not believing there was a portal inside.

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\n\n\nWestpoint High School, located in Eastpoint Idaho, is not a normal place by a long shot. There are mad scientists, magic users, werewolves, dryads, androids, aliens, portals, time travel, spacial anomalies, and students with no common sense. Rowan Wolford is a former student, who has decided to share some stories of her time there.





* DodgeballIsHell: Mostly self-inflicted. Rowan's class started a game that lasted four days.



* ExtranormalInstitute: Unsurprisingly. Besides all the [[AcademyOfAdventure supernatural chaos that occurs on a daily basis]], the school offers a practical magic class.



* OncePerEpisode: Nearly every episode contains one of the titular lessons.



* StuffedIntoALocker: One student actually stuffed Mrs. Wilson into his locker, in retaliation for her not believing there was a portal inside.

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* ShowAndTellAntics: The high school doesn't do show-and-tell, but some students use props for their presentations like this. It came to a head when one girl brought her pet grizzly bear to school.
* StableTimeLoop: Time travel exists, but paradoxes are impossible. Unfortunately, you can still bring back a disease from another time.
* StuffedIntoALocker: One student actually stuffed Mrs. Wilson into his locker, in retaliation for her not believing there was a portal inside.inside.
* WeirdnessMagnet: The whole town, going back millions of years.

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* TheAce: Fittingly, the person the students call The Ace. She's an inter-dimensional traveler with a resume covering nearly every job imaginable.

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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Subverted. The Student Council is so inconsequential that it took Rowen four months to learn that a flying fox had been elected president.
* TheAce: Fittingly, the person the students call The Ace. She's an inter-dimensional traveler with a resume résumé covering nearly every job imaginable.



* EldritchLocation: Westpoint High School. From a floating fifth floor (and no fourth floor) to hallways that sometimes turn into mazes, to portals that randomly open inside lockers, it tends to keep students on their toes.

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* EldritchLocation: Westpoint High School. From a floating fifth floor (and no fourth floor) to hallways that sometimes turn into mazes, mazes to portals that randomly open inside lockers, it tends to keep students on their toes.



* OurVampiresAreDifferent:

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent:OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rowen claims there's nearly 500 variations of the vampire curse. None of them are welcomed into Eastpoint.



* PlaygroundSong:
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
* SanitySlippage:
* SecretPath:
* SecretRoom:
* SelectiveObliviousness:
* StuffedIntoALocker:

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* PlaygroundSong:
PlaygroundSong: Some students trapped on a school bus start singing these to pass the time. The bus driver decided that going out to face a herd of hostile moose was preferable to listening to these.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ms. Jones has been working as the secretary since the school was first built over a hundred years old. No data on how long she lived before then.
* SanitySlippage:
SanitySlippage: Pretty common. Of note is Mr. Spiel, who snapped just one month after he started teaching and started painting murals in fry sauce.
* SecretPath:
SecretPath: The school contains a large number of secret passages, which are sometimes more reliable than the regular hallways.
* SecretRoom:
SecretRoom: A few of these, in addition to the secret passages. These include Kimberly Bell's safety bunker, and a space inside the elevator shaft that someone stuffed with scented candles.
* SelectiveObliviousness:
SelectiveObliviousness: Mrs. Wilson is apparently blind to anything remotely supernatural.
* StuffedIntoALocker:StuffedIntoALocker: One student actually stuffed Mrs. Wilson into his locker, in retaliation for her not believing there was a portal inside.

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* TheAce:
* ActionSurvivor:
* AnimateInanimateObject:
* BottomlessPits:
* DanceOff:
* EldritchLocation:
* FoodFight:
* ImprovisedWeapon:
* MagicMusic:
* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable:
* NoodleIncident:
* OpenSecret:

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* TheAce:
TheAce: Fittingly, the person the students call The Ace. She's an inter-dimensional traveler with a resume covering nearly every job imaginable.
* ActionSurvivor:
ActionSurvivor: Pretty much the entire town.
* AnimateInanimateObject:
AnimateInanimateObject: Locker #217. He's even dating Kimberly Bell.
* BottomlessPits:
BottomlessPits: There's one on campus, which a student created for a final project.
* DanceOff:
DanceOff: Pretty common, though most of them are based on endurance, not skill.
* EldritchLocation:
EldritchLocation: Westpoint High School. From a floating fifth floor (and no fourth floor) to hallways that sometimes turn into mazes, to portals that randomly open inside lockers, it tends to keep students on their toes.
* FoodFight:
FoodFight: An ill-advised one encompassed nearly the entire school, though it mercifully didn't extend into the library.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
GhostTown: There's apparently a lot in this part of the state.
* MagicMusic:
ImprovisedWeapon: Most students are good at this, though Miss Linton is the reigning champion.
* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable:
MagicMusic: The band has a song called "Battle Mode," which may or may not warp reality.
* NoodleIncident:
MiddleSchoolIsMiserable: The normal middle school drama is amplified by the two forces known as The Dread and The Dumb. Also, Nine Rings Middle School was built on the site where crazed mountain men performed blood rituals, which probably doesn't help.
* OpenSecret:NonIndicativeName: Westpoint High School is located in Eastpoint, Idaho. And no one knows what either is east or west of.
* NoodleIncident: The "Newmeyer Incident" is mentioned several times, but never elaborated on, besides the implication that it was pretty traumatic.
* OpenSecret: The whole town knows that Mr. Tucker is also the superhero Clash Cymbal. They're just too polite to mention it.



* PlaceWorseThanDeath:

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* PlaceWorseThanDeath:PlaceWorseThanDeath: Outsiders consider the town of Eastpoint this. Rowan considers Nevada this.
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->''"High School Lesson #0001: Murphy's Law. Learn it. Fear it."''
->''"Lesson #0002: See lesson #0001."''

''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/high-school-lessons/list?title_no=511093 High School Lessons]]'' is a webcomic by Erin Yvette Haroldsen.





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* ActionSurvivor:
* AnimateInanimateObject:
* BottomlessPits:
* DanceOff:
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* ImprovisedWeapon:
* MagicMusic:
* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable:
* NoodleIncident:
* OpenSecret:
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
* PlaceWorseThanDeath:
* PlaygroundSong:
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
* SanitySlippage:
* SecretPath:
* SecretRoom:
* SelectiveObliviousness:
* StuffedIntoALocker:

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