Mystic Falls High School inevitably became a battleground for supernatural species in The Vampire Diaries, and several showdowns took place within the school premises.
Deaths like Vicki's and Sarah's were just brushed under the rug. Typically, even a single student death would create a furor in an educational institution, but Mystic Falls High School was conveniently devoid of any real authority figures.
Vampires could compel humans to do as they pleased, but how compulsion worked and wore off was a mystery on TVD.
This was a big retcon in the show and only delegitimized earlier plots where compulsion had stayed intact. The writers shouldn't have created such a big inconsistency for the sake of drama because nobody took Stefan's arc seriously after that.
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