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300:) - A professional and kind English teacher. She is shown to be one of the more competent faculty members, who cares about education and student well-being. At the beginning of the series, she was in a relationship with Steve Mudgeway, but broke it off after he and Agnes O'Flaherty slept together, making Agnes pregnant. To get her own back, she sleeps with Afioga, a student. This causes her to be fired, but she is quickly rehired after it emerges that as a result, his reading scores have notably increased, and Fenn is singled out by the Ministry of Education as an exceptional teacher. In Season Two, Episode One, she and Hone Hakanui are shown to have started a relationship; however, Fenn ends this in Season Two, Episode Four after Hone's drinking and gambling cause issues on the school 'camp'. She and Steve nearly get back together, but after Steve proposes to her only to secure his job, she leaves him permanently.
307:) - An honest and perceptive secretary. She frequently is roped into Roger Dascent's mismanagement, such as helping him duck calls from Marion Patterson and not calling the police when there are issues on school. She is often the conscience of the show, such as highlighting the amorality of selling MÄori and Pacific Island Students to rugby-playing schools. Despite being reluctantly involved in Roger's schemes, she cares deeply about him, being the only faculty member to visit him in the psychiatric facility. At the end of the series, Roger proposes to Lauren, which she accepts.
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