History Main / AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction

* The 2008 Lifetime movie ''Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal'' has the eponymous cheerleaders heading into an adult boutique and novelty store where they take photos of themselves messing around and trying out the merchandise inside. They end up [[TemptingFate posting these pictures on MySpace later]]; [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and get punished]] with a school suspension. Justified because these cheerleaders are in uniform during their escapade and are therefore representing, er, misrepresenting the school.

[[caption-width-right:350:A sting operation organized to bust a student. Off school grounds. On a Sunday.]]

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* ''Manga/WeddingPeach'': In the anime, a SadistTeacher named Iwamoto (actually a devil in disguise) comes to power in the heroines' school and sets up strict rules. Not only is student behavior controlled inside school but outside school as well. In fact, he even follows Momoko, Yuri, Hinagiku and their male friends to a ski resort to enforce his edict about boys and girls not meeting or talking with each other.

* ''Manga/{{Citrus}}'' takes place at a prestigious private school, Aihara Academy. After Mei, the StudentCouncilPresident, notices that her stepsister Yuzu got home late, Yuzu and her friend Harumi get assigned cleaning duty as punishment for making stops on the way home.

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* The 2008 Lifetime movie ''Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal'' has the titular cheerleaders heading into an adult boutique and novelty store where they take photos of themselves messing around and trying out the merchandise inside. They end up [[TemptingFate posting these pictures on MySpace later]]; [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and get punished]] with a school suspension. Justified because these cheerleaders are in uniform during their escapade and are therefore representing, er, misrepresenting the school.
* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' the municipal police have zero authority on Adams College campus. It's implied the school is so powerful that the local police [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham leaves it completely alone]].
* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': [[DeanBitterman Principal Rooney]] scours the city looking for Ferris Bueller to punish him, despite the fact that (in this case) he does have an excused absence according to his parents, thus meaning there should be nothing Rooney can do.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' features Truant Officer [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Shallowgrave]] chasing down Timmy and an aged down Adam West, despite the fact Adam is normally an adult and thus wouldn't have been enrolled in Dimmsdale Elementary. Said truant officer is also a PsychoForHire BountyHunter who uses excessive force and has to be reminded he isn't allowed to do anything lethal to the kids. Ultimately justified because of RuleOfFunny and Shallow Grave being fired at the end when Timmy stages it to look like he had been with an adult the whole time (which he technically was...just one that was in the form of a kid), implying there are at least some limitations of school jurisdiction.

** This can also apply in the UK, [[UsefulNotes/TheCommonwealthOfNations The Commonwealth]] and other places where [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack school uniforms are the norm]] such as Japan since when out and about in uniform students are immediately recognisable as being from that school

* Many colleges in the USA through the nineteenth century up until the 1960s had ''in loco parentis'' powers over students, including what they could and couldn't do off-campus. While enforceable at isolated, rural colleges, this power over students was trickier to enforce at urban and commuter colleges, and there was a definite DoubleStandard; most of the rules for men were loosened if not eliminated after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with an influx of combat veterans well into their 20s attending under the GI Bill, while the ones governing "girls" continued until second-wave feminism led to their repeal in the mid/late '60s.

* The 2008 Lifetime movie ''Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal'' has the titular cheerleaders heading into an adult boutique and novelty store where they take photos of themselves messing around and trying out the merchandise inside. They end up [[TemptingFate posting these pictures on MySpace later]]; [[RealityEnsues and get punished]] with a school suspension. Justified because these cheerleaders are in uniform during their escapade and are therefore representing, er, misrepresenting the school.

%%* Used in all the stories by Charles Hamilton under his various pen names (eg Frank Richards, Hilda Richards, Martin Clifford and others) because all of his main characters are boarding school students, the most famous being ''Literature/BillyBunter''.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' features Truant Officer [[PunnyName Shallow Grave]] chasing down Timmy and an aged down Adam West, despite the fact Adam is normally an adult and thus wouldn't have been enrolled in Dimmsdale Elementary. Said truant officer is also a PsychoForHire BountyHunter who uses excessive force and has to be reminded he isn't allowed to do anything lethal to the kids. Ultimately justified because of RuleOfFunny and Shallow Grave being fired at the end when Timmy stages it to look like he had been with an adult the whole time (which he technically was...just one that was in the form of a kid), implying there are at least some limitations of school jurisdiction.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', [[SadistTeacher Professor Umbridge]] bans Harry and the Weasley twins from playing Quidditch ''for life'' after they get into a fight on the pitch, and confiscates their brooms. Though as Harry points out, in practice he's only banned as long as Umbridge is at the school, which is proven true in the following year.

* In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Umbridge bans Harry and the Weasley twins from playing Quidditch ''for life'', and confiscates their brooms.

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* In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Umbridge bans Harry and the Wesley twins from playing Quidditch ''for life'', and confiscate their brooms.

* In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfPhoenix]], Umbridge bans Harry and the Wesley twins from playing Quidditch ''for life'', and confiscate their brooms.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfPhoenix'' Umbridge bans Harry and the Wesley twins to play Quidditch ''for life'', and confiscate their brooms.

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* Possible to exploit this in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': if Yandere-chan can get proof of someone committing some sort of infarction or an act that would embarrass the school, she can then turn it into the school counselor in order to eventually get the student expelled for being a troublemaker. In the alpha builds Info-chan gives her a video of Kokona selling her used panties to boys.

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* Used in all the stories by Charles Hamilton under his various pen names (eg Frank Richards, Hilda Richards, Martin Clifford and others) because all of his main characters are boarding school students, the most famous being ''Literature/BillyBunter''.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In episode, 10 Ichigo and Rukia are grabbed by security when they tried to interfere with one of Don Kanonji's public exorcisms off campus. In episode 11 it's revealed that their actions were captured on film and they and the other students who were there are called before the school administration for possible disciplinary action.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In episode 10 Ichigo and Rukia are grabbed by security when they tried to interfere with one of Don Kanonji's public exorcisms off campus. In episode 11 it's revealed that their actions were captured on film and they and the other students who were there are called before the school administration for possible disciplinary action.

May overlap with JurisdictionFriction. If student(s) are punished for the actions of a family member or an acquaintance, it could also overlap with IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure or RevengeByProxy.

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* Many colleges in the USA through the nineteenth century up until the 1960s had ''in loco parentis'' powers over students, including what they could and couldn't do off-campus. While enforceable at isolated, rural colleges, this power over students was trickier to enforce at urban and commuter colleges, and there was a definite DoubleStandard; most of the rules for men were loosened if not eliminated after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with an influx of combat veterans well into their 20s attending under the GI Bill, while the ones governing "girls" continued until second-wave feminism led to their repeal in the mid/late '60s.

* Many colleges in the USA through the nineteenth century up until the 1960s had ''in loco parentis'' powers over students, including what they could and couldn't do off-campus. While enforceable at isolated, rural colleges, this power over students was trickier to enforce at urban and commuter colleges, and there was a definite DoubleStandard; most of the rules for men were loosened if not eliminated after WorldWarII with an influx of combat veterans well into their 20s attending under the GI Bill, while the ones governing "girls" continued until second-wave feminism led to their repeal in the mid/late '60s.

* Many colleges in the USA through the nineteenth century up until the 1960s had ''in loco parentis'' powers over students, including what they could and couldn't do off-campus. While enforceable at isolated, rural colleges, this power over students was trickier to enforce at urban and commuter colleges.

* In the 1978 film ''Harper Valley PTA'', the local PTA threatens to expel her daughter from high school if Stella Johnson doesn't stop flouting local standards. This counts more of as a subversion, since the daughter is [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure being punished for her mother's actions]] instead of her own.

* Manga/WeddingPeach: In the anime, a SadistTeacher named Iwamoto (actually a devil in disguise) comes to power in the heroines' school and sets up strict rules. Not only is student behavior controlled inside school but outside school as well. In fact, he even follows Momoko, Yuri, Hinagiku and their male friends to a ski resort to enforce his edict about boys and girls not meeting or talking with each other.

* In the movie ''Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'', a school faculty makes the decision to expel any student caught associating with Elvira.

You are a student at your local school. Once school lets out for the day and you\'re miles away from the school property, you get involved in a \"misunderstanding\". Perhaps you can partake in a ZanyScheme, you join some of the guys in [[ThePeepingTom spying on women changing their clothes]], or you have to fight TheBully.

When you return to school, you\'re shocked to learn that you\'re being punished for those offenses you committed - off school grounds and outside of school hours.

Examples:

* Manga/WeddingPeach: In the anime, a SadistTeacher named Iwamoto (actually a devil in disguise) comes to power in the heroines\' school and sets up strict rules. Not only is student behavior controlled inside school but outside school as well. In fact, he even follows Momoko, Yuri, Hinagiku and their male friends to a ski resort to enforce his edict about boys and girls not meeting or talking with each other.
* \'\'Manga/{{Bleach}}\'\' {{anime}}. In episode 10 Ichigo and Rukia were grabbed by security when they tried to interfere with one of Don Kanonji\'s public exorcisms off campus. In episode 11 it\'s revealed that their actions were captured on film and they and the other students who were there are called before the school administration for possible disciplinary action.

* In the movie ElviraMistressOfTheDark, a school faculty makes the decision to expel any student caught associating with Elvira.
* Convinced that rock and roll and especially the Ramones are the source of truancy and hooliganism, Principal Togar of \'\'RockAndRollHighSchool\'\' tries to ban student attendance at their concert.
* In the 1978 film \'\'Harper Valley PTA\'\', the local PTA threatens to expel her daughter from high school if Stella Johnson doesn\'t stop flouting local standards. This counts more of as a subversion, since the daughter is [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure being punished for her mother\'s actions]] instead of her own.
* The 2008 Lifetime movie \'\'Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal\'\' has the titular cheerleaders heading into an adult boutique and novelty store where they take photos of themselves messing around and trying out the merchandise inside. They end up [[TooDumbToLive posting these pictures on MySpace later]] - [[RealityEnsues and get punished]] with a school suspension. Justified because these cheerleaders were in uniform during their escapade and were therefore representing, er, misrepresenting the school.
* In \'\'Film/RevengeOfTheNerds\'\' the municipal police have zero authority on Adams College campus. It\'s implied the school is so powerful that the local police [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham leaves it completely alone]].
* \'\'Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff\'\': [[DeanBitterman Principal Rooney]] scours the city looking for Ferris Bueller to punish him, despite the fact that (in this case) he does have an excused absence according to his parents, thus meaning there should be nothing Rooney can do.

* Used in all the stories by Charles Hamilton under his various pen names (eg Frank Richards, Hilda Richards, Martin Clifford and others) because all of his main characters were boarding school students, the most famous being \'\'BillyBunter\'\'.

* Subverted in the \'\'Series/BlueBloods\'\' episode \"Devil\'s Breath\". At first Erin\'s daughter Nicky tries to organize a sit-in to protest her school\'s policy of being able to search lockers at any time regardless of the student\'s consent. At the end of the episode she changes it to a mass protest after school hours and across the street. The principal threatens to suspend the whole group but Erin forces her to back down by pointing out that such a protest is, in fact, protected under the First Amendment.

* On the \"Bart\'s Girlfriend\" episode of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, Bart uses a balloon to pull up Groundskeeper Willie\'s kilt during a \"Scotchtoberfest\" event and immediately gets busted by Principal Skinner who was using the phony \"Scotchoberfest\" as a sting operation to entrap Bart. Skinner does this even though the sting operation clearly takes place off school grounds and on a Sunday.
* An episode of \'\'WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents\'\' featured Truant Officer [[PunnyName Shallow Grave]] chasing down Timmy and an aged down Adam West, despite the fact Adam is normally an adult, and thus wouldn\'t have been enrolled in Dimmsdale Elementary. Said truant officer was also a scary bounty hunter using too much force and had to be reminded he wasn\'t allowed to do anything lethal to the kids. Ultimately justified because of RuleOfFunny and Shallow Grave being fired at the end when Timmy staged it to look like he had been with an adult the whole time (which he technically was...just one that was in the form of a kid), implying there are at least some limitations of school juristriction.
* A 1959 Walter Lantz cartoon \"Truant Student\" had a plot similar to the above Fairly Oddparents episode, played for the RuleOfFunny. [[BearyFunny Starring a bear named Windy and his son Breezy]], Windy gets mistaken for a student by the local truant officer. The overzealous officer pursues Windy throughout the short and even goes as far as punish the defiant bear by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment sticking him inside the school bell and then ringing it]]!

* In some US states and localities, \"nexus\" laws are in effect, allowing schools to punish students for any infractions going to or coming from school. For the purposes of certain crimes (like fighting or drug offenses), some state laws decree the jurisdiction of the school extends to within a certain radius (such as 1000 feet) of the school premises.

* This trope isn\'t limited to primary and secondary schools. Some higher learning institutions are known to have considerable power. One example is Bob Jones University of South Carolina. Many hefty strings are attached to the lifestyles of students, such as dress codes and social behavior. In fact, the students are actually barred from listening to contemporary music or [[SeriousBusiness even going to movie theaters]]; this is [[AllThereInTheManual actually specified in the campus code of conduct.]]

* In the nineteenth century, Princeton and Harvard administrators created a blacklist among the nation\'s colleges to prevent habitual troublemakers from enrolling elsewhere. A fair number of colleges in the USA did abide by this blacklist.
* Many colleges in the USA through the nineteenth century up until the 1960s had \'\'in loco parentis\'\' powers over students, including what they could and couldn\'t do off-campus. While enforceable at isolated, rural colleges, this power over students was trickier to enforce at urban and commuter colleges.