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* The Paris-based English-language school which features in ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' is just vaguely weird in countless ways (the American-style atmosphere, the uncontrolled sexual activities of many of the pupils, the uniforms...), putting it more in line with American comedy comics and Japanese manga than anything you'd probably find in that place in reality.
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* The Paris-based English-language school which features in ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' is just vaguely weird in countless ways (the American-style atmosphere, the uncontrolled sexual activities of many of the pupils, the uniforms...), putting it more in line with American comedy comics and Japanese manga than anything you'd probably find in that place in reality.
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* The Paris-based English-language school which features in ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' is just vaguely weird in countless ways (the American-style atmosphere, the uncontrolled sexual activities of many of the pupils, the uniforms...), putting it more in line with American comedy comics and Japanese manga than anything you'd probably find in that place in reality.
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* Teachers that are tenured being depicted as unpunishable. In real life, tenured teachers typically have to lose tenure before getting fired (though sometimes this happens in rapid succession), otherwise teachers that break minor rules just expect to get a stern talking to and sent back to the classroom. And in order for someone under tenure to get fired, they would have to hit a kid or say/do something controversial, which is unfortunately TruthInTelevision, as tenured {{sadist teacher}}s are extremely difficult to get rid of.
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* Teachers that are tenured being depicted as unpunishable. In real life, tenured teachers typically have to lose tenure before getting fired (though sometimes this happens in rapid succession), otherwise otherwise, teachers that break minor rules just expect to get a stern talking to and sent back to the classroom. And in order for someone under tenure to get fired, they would have to hit a kid or say/do something controversial, which is unfortunately TruthInTelevision, as tenured {{sadist teacher}}s are extremely difficult to get rid of.
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* In ''WebAnimation/OllieAndScoops'', Ollie is able to take her pet cat, Scoops, to school and no one says anything about it, even her teacher and the principal.
* In ''WebAnimation/OllieAndScoops'', Ollie is able to take her pet cat, Scoops, to school and no one says anything about it, even her teacher and the principal.
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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' runs on this. A teacher who not only bullies students but encourages them to do it to others, a student with a 0.0 GPA being permitted to do athletic competitions, a club that seems to meet at all hours of the day, a Spanish teacher who never actually qualified on the subject (and has to go to night school to learn the subject he's supposed to be teaching), a female student being punished by the glee club coach for refusing to wear a clamshell bikini during a performance (it's important note that she is 15 years old and has an eating disorder that the coach already knew about when he set the assignment), a student in a wheelchair being allowed to play football by invoking [[LoopholeAbuse Ain't No Rule]], a teacher becoming so close to his students that one of them is ''the best man at his wedding'', not to mention the whole deal with [[AxesAtSchool the student who brought a gun to school]]... Well, there's a reason the Headscratchers section had to be divided up into seven separate pages.
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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' runs on this. A teacher who not only bullies students but encourages them to do it to others, a student with a 0.0 GPA being permitted to do athletic competitions, a club that seems to meet at all hours of the day, a Spanish teacher who never actually qualified on the subject (and has to go to night school to learn the subject he's supposed to be teaching), a female student being punished by the glee club coach for refusing to wear a clamshell bikini during a performance (it's important to note that she is 15 years old and has an eating disorder that the coach already knew about when he set the assignment), a student in a wheelchair being allowed to play football by invoking [[LoopholeAbuse Ain't No Rule]], a teacher becoming so close to his students that one of them is ''the best man at his wedding'', not to mention the whole deal with [[AxesAtSchool the student who brought a gun to school]]... Well, there's a reason the Headscratchers section had to be divided up into seven separate pages.
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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' runs on this. A teacher who not only bullies students but encourages them to do it to others, a student with a 0.0 GPA being permitted to do athletic competitions, a club that seems to meet at all hours of the day, a Spanish teacher who never actually qualified on the subject (and has to go to night school to learn the subject he's supposed to be teaching), a female student being punished by the glee club coach for refusing to wear a clamshell bikini during a performance (it's important note that she is 15 years old and has an eating disorder that the coach already knew about when he set the assignment), a student in a wheelchair being allowed to play football by invoking [[LoopholeAbuse Ain't No Rule]], a teacher becoming so close to his students that one of them is ''the best man at his wedding'', not to mention the whole deal with [[AxesAtSchool the student who brought a gun to school]]... Well, there's a reason the Headscratchers section had to be divided up into seven separate pages.
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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' runs on this. A teacher who not only bullies students but encourages them to do it to others (and physically assaults a student in a fit of anger), others, a student with a 0.0 GPA being permitted to do athletic competitions, a club that seems to meet at all hours of the day, a Spanish teacher who never actually qualified on the subject (and has to go to night school to learn the subject he's supposed to be teaching), an anorexic a female student being punished by the glee club coach for not wanting refusing to wear a clamshell bikini during a performance, performance (it's important note that she is 15 years old and has an eating disorder that the coach already knew about when he set the assignment), a teacher becoming so close to his students that one of them is ''the best man at his wedding'', not to mention the whole deal with [[AxesAtSchool the student who brought a gun to school]]... Well, there's a reason the Headscratchers section had to be divided up into seven separate pages.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s history teacher never gets questioned or reprimanded for targeting a Cassie for detentions every time he suspects she's not paying complete attention in his class, which she does because she ''already knows'' everything he's teaching and can answer his questions when he snaps at her in class to try to catch her off guard. He then decides her answers aren't respectful enough and sentences her to after school detention.
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* In the film adaptation of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'', Max's astronomy teacher tells the class about how everything is going to die one day and lists the possible ways that humanity could be wiped out. Yes, he tells all of this to ''a bunch of 9-year-old kids'', and what's worse is that he does so ''cheerfully'' as if he doesn't see anything wrong with it.
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* In the film adaptation of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'', Max's astronomy teacher tells the class about how everything is going to die one day and lists the possible ways that humanity could be wiped out. Yes, he tells all of this to ''a bunch of 9-year-old kids'', and what's worse is that he does so ''cheerfully'' as if he doesn't see anything wrong with it.
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* In the second season of ''Series/DanceAcademy'', the whole issue with [[SadistTeacher Saskia Duncan]] showing contempt towards Tara because she's [[GreenEyedMonster jealous of her dancing skills]] culminates with her [[spoiler:injuring Tara's back when she forces her into a dangerous stretch]]. When Ben (who witnessed this) tells Miss Raine what happened, she doesn't fire her, but makes her apologize, which Saskia refuses to do. She ends up not completely getting away with it when her students harass her over the incident into quitting, but Miss Raine really should of fired Saskia, since in Sydney, Australia, [[spoiler:hurting a student]] is not allowed.
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** "Excuse Me": Fanboy, Chum Chum and Kyle get away with missing class constantly due to all kinds of unrealistic fake excuse notes. Mr Mufflin falls for all of them until it is discovered outright that they are lying. He even accepts an excuse note to excuse [=FanKyleChum=](actually a real student) from class forever. Even given RuleOfFunny, no teacher would accept any of these.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back five grades.
** Also, according to WordOfGod, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class due to Fanboy sneaking him in and no one noticing. Seemingly, AdultsAreUseless and bureaucracy barely exists in this world.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back five grades.
** Also, according to WordOfGod, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class due to Fanboy sneaking him in and no one noticing. Seemingly, AdultsAreUseless and bureaucracy barely exists in this world.
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** "Excuse Me": Fanboy, Chum Chum and Kyle get away with missing class constantly due to all kinds of unrealistic fake excuse notes. Mr Mufflin falls for all of them until it is discovered outright that they are lying. He even accepts an excuse note to excuse [=FanKyleChum=](actually [=FanKyleChum=] (actually a real student) from class forever. Even given RuleOfFunny, no teacher would accept any of these.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back fivegrades.
grades. Additionally, Marsha would just be made to retake the test at a later date, especially since it wasn't her fault the test got ruined.
**Also, according According to WordOfGod, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class due to Fanboy sneaking him in and no one noticing. Seemingly, AdultsAreUseless and bureaucracy barely exists in this world.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back five
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** It's later established that Aizawa is a special case, and that the authority to temporarily expel students at the beginning of the year was a specific condition he required upon being hired at UA, with the specific reasoning being the need for them to experience a metaphorical "death" in order to impress upon them how serious the profession they aspire to is.
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** An example is schools with NoDressCode.
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A SuperTrope to ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions, which is specific to colleges and how applicants are accepted into post-secondary schooling, and to AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction, where school officials attempt to punish a student for their actions outside of school grounds.
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A SuperTrope to ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions, which is specific to colleges and how applicants are accepted into post-secondary schooling, and to AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction, where school officials attempt to punish a student for their actions outside of school grounds.
grounds, and CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2, where colleges and universities are structured like high schools.
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** "Excuse Me": Fanboy, Chum Chum and Kyle get away with missing class constantly due to all kinds of unrealistic fake excuse notes. Mr Mufflin falls for all of them until it is discovered outright that they are lying. He even accepts an excuse note to excuse FanKyleChum(actually [=FanKyleChum=](actually a real student) from class forever. Even given RuleOfFunny, no teacher would accept any of these.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', where Charlie Brown, who's implied to be in second or third grade, gets assigned to read ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' and is forced to do complex math equations, to emphasize his ButtMonkey nature.
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* Series/RippingYarns: The episode "Tomkinson's Schooldays", being a surreal parody, is about a British BoardingSchool which is of course much weirder than ever existed in reality. Well, somewhat weirder.
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* Series/RippingYarns: The episode ''Series/RippingYarns'': "Tomkinson's Schooldays", being a surreal parody, is about a British BoardingSchool which is of course much weirder than ever existed in reality. Well, somewhat weirder.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Umbridge puts Harry in detention for entire evenings, with no regard for the homework he has to do for other subjects.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Umbridge puts Harry in detention for entire evenings, with no regard for the homework he has to do for other subjects. [[JustifiedTrope But Umbridge has been trying to sabotage Harry since the book started, and academic probation or even expulsion would only help her.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' is oozing with examples of unrealistic school. Stand out episode examples include:
** "Excuse Me": Fanboy, Chum Chum and Kyle get away with missing class constantly due to all kinds of unrealistic fake excuse notes. Mr Mufflin falls for all of them until it is discovered outright that they are lying. He even accepts an excuse note to excuse FanKyleChum(actually a real student) from class forever. Even given RuleOfFunny, no teacher would accept any of these.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back five grades.
** Also, according to WordOfGod, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class due to Fanboy sneaking him in and no one noticing. Seemingly, AdultsAreUseless and bureaucracy barely exists in this world.
** "Excuse Me": Fanboy, Chum Chum and Kyle get away with missing class constantly due to all kinds of unrealistic fake excuse notes. Mr Mufflin falls for all of them until it is discovered outright that they are lying. He even accepts an excuse note to excuse FanKyleChum(actually a real student) from class forever. Even given RuleOfFunny, no teacher would accept any of these.
** "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha": Fanboy and Chum Chum accidentally end up in a kindergarten where they are forced to stay all day because the teacher doesn't believe that they're not kindergarten students. While there, they discover that their former classmate Marsha was sent here after Fanboy got snot all over her standardized test. No teacher would use something like this as a reason to fail a student to the point of sending them back five grades.
** Also, according to WordOfGod, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class due to Fanboy sneaking him in and no one noticing. Seemingly, AdultsAreUseless and bureaucracy barely exists in this world.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School. His teacher, Mrs. Puff, hates him due to him causing destruction during his driver's tests. In spite of him constantly failing, he's still allowed to stay at the driving school where in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go is because she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School. His teacher, Mrs. Puff, hates him due to him causing destruction during his driver's tests. In spite of him constantly failing, he's still allowed to stay at the driving school where in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go is because that she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].once]].
* The end of the ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Goodbye, Mr. Chump" has Dick Dastardly WritingLines on the chalkboard, even though the episode is set at a university rather than an elementary school.
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* The end of the ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Goodbye, Mr. Chump" has Dick Dastardly WritingLines on the chalkboard, even though the episode is set at a university rather than an elementary school.
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* Students being allowed to bring in pets (ones that are not certified service animals, at least) into school. This is usually a huge risk since there are people that are allergic to some animals.
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* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', we have Shota "Eraserhead" Aizawa's infamous (especially InUniverse) act of expelling an entire class of U.A. in the very first day because he didn't thought they would cut it as Heroes (because they didn't took the Quirk Apprehension Test that students take on that day as seriously as Aizawa wanted). While this demonstrates that he is a serious SinkOrSwimMentor ([[TheReveal we find out approximately a couple of hundred chapters later]] that Aizawa only expelled them for a few minutes and re-enrolled them [[ScareEmStraight once the message was finally understood]], and one of the students of that class (now in his second year in U.A.) even shows up to ''thank'' Aizawa for it) the fact still stands that Aizawa performed this action with no red tape getting in the way and even by the current day of the story the people in charge of administering U.A. still have not put anything in place to prevent him from doing it again.
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* The minor British BoardingSchoolOfHorrors at the heart of the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' stories is based on reality (the author was a teacher), but wildly exaggerated for the sake of comic {{parody}}. The sadism and insanity of the staff and senior boys is an obvious case in point.
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* The Paris-based English-language school which features in ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' is just vaguely weird in countless ways (the American-style atmosphere, the uncontrolled sexual activities of many of the pupils, the uniforms...), putting it more in line with American comedy comics and Japanese manga than anything you'd probably find in that place in reality.
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School is intended for children to be educated to prepare them for adulthood. While on school grounds, both students and staff must adhere to certain policies and guidelines. MostWritersAreAdults, but not all writers are teachers, which means that they won't know everything about what should be allowed in school and what shouldn't. Even if they did, they probably would ignore them just for the sake of the story.
Sometimes, this can be the result of EaglelandOsmosis and/or CreatorProvincialism, if the work is set in a country other than the one the creator went to school in and the creator was unable or unwilling to research how that country's school system works. Sometimes, of course, RealityIsUnrealistic; while having a work where American students wear uniforms and refer to the head of the school as a "headmaster" instead of "principal" may seem like this trope, there are many private schools in the U.S. where this is standard practice.
Specific instances of this trope include:
* Schools having outlandish rules or practices that wouldn't be in a real life school or not having a certain rule that they should have in place.
* Schools following a system that does not match the setting/culture of the work. This is especially common with [[WeAllLiveInAmerica American-made works that take place in a non-American setting]].
* Schools having NoOSHACompliance, and issues getting to class, the lunchroom, or the bathroom safely.
* Physical education, in particular, resembling a military training program more than a school which probably has to consider disabilities.
* Punishments ranging from too excessive, to too light, or not happening at all.
* Detentions being insanely long. In real life, weekday detentions usually only last up to two hours after school.
** Detentions having insane punishments, like being forced to wax entire rooms with a toothbrush.
** Actual torture going on in detention.
* The school is a SchoolOfNoStudying, where the kids don't have to do any work despite the fact that it's required.
* Teaching using EEqualsMCHammer-like equations.
* Teachers mistreating students and the school staff will either do nothing or allow it to happen. Can also happen vise-versa.
* Staff-encouraged bullying.
* Teachers being allowed to teach despite having a criminal record, or the school actually having a criminal employment policy... to jobs where even if it were okay to be employing criminals, people of ''that'' crime shouldn't be employed to ''that'' position (a convicted pedophile running day care, for example).
* A school being a TwoTeacherSchool, even though there's WAY too many students.
* School anachronisms. CorporalPunishment would be the most obvious, but others include learning to read with a slate or having centuries-old curriculum. The inverse is also the case, having ancient Greeks with a classroom teaching Women's Studies, for instance.
* Schools having classes that don't ''even exist'' in the real world (Plant Psychology, for example).
* Teachers teaching subjects that are either too difficult or too easy for a grade level.
* Parallels drawn between the classroom and a Soviet-style organization where BigBrotherIsWatching, a military organization, feudal Japan, or some other setting.
* Teachers that are tenured being depicted as unpunishable. In real life, tenured teachers typically have to lose tenure before getting fired (though sometimes this happens in rapid succession), otherwise teachers that break minor rules just expect to get a stern talking to and sent back to the classroom. And in order for someone under tenure to get fired, they would have to hit a kid or say/do something controversial, which is unfortunately TruthInTelevision, as tenured {{sadist teacher}}s are extremely difficult to get rid of.
Note that ValuesDissonance does not apply. If something that happens in a school is acceptable in one place or time period but not another and the setting of the work takes place in the former, then it doesn't count.
A SuperTrope to ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions, which is specific to colleges and how applicants are accepted into post-secondary schooling, and to AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction, where school officials attempt to punish a student for their actions outside of school grounds.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', we have Shota "Eraserhead" Aizawa's infamous (especially InUniverse) act of expelling an entire class of U.A. in the very first day because he didn't thought they would cut it as Heroes (because they didn't took the Quirk Apprehension Test that students take on that day as seriously as Aizawa wanted). While this demonstrates that he is a serious SinkOrSwimMentor ([[TheReveal we find out approximately a couple of hundred chapters later]] that Aizawa only expelled them for a few minutes and re-enrolled them [[ScareEmStraight once the message was finally understood]], and one of the students of that class (now in his second year in U.A.) even shows up to ''thank'' Aizawa for it) the fact still stands that Aizawa performed this action with no red tape getting in the way and even by the current day of the story the people in charge of administering U.A. still have not put anything in place to prevent him from doing it again.
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', DumbJock CrazyJealousGuy Moose constantly gets away with [[AmusingInjuries assaulting other students]] in and out of school with no consequence.
[[AC:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the schoolwork done in Calvin's first grade class ranges from addition to knowing the state capitals, the latter of which is usually not taught to first graders.
[[AC:Films - Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', the titular heroes end up destroying Pokey Oaks Kindergarten (as well as the rest of Townsville) on their first day after using their powers during a game of tag. The next day, they and the other students have to come in despite the school being in shambles. In real life, children would ''NOT'' be allowed to come into a school building that is half destroyed. Classes would either be cancelled or held somewhere else until the original building is fixed.
[[AC:Films - Live-Action]]
[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Trunchbull's reign of terror over the students of Trunchem Hall. Sure, it ''is'' Roald Dahl (who actually wrote about how he had to endure a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors in his autobiography) and AdultsAreUseless so on, but no matter how much Trunchbull goes so over-the-top with her cruelty that it is RefugeInAudacity incarnate, ''somebody'' would have thought it weird to hear their kid talking about how there is a ''freaking Iron Maiden in their school'' or how Trunchbull used a kid as a human cannonball toss, especially because the [[Film/{{Matilda}} film adaptation]] doesn't takes place in England (again, Boarding School of Horrors being TruthInTelevision over there) but in the modern-day United States.
* ''Literature/{{Woodwalkers}}'': Even though this series is set in the US, it still uses the German grade system with "One" as the best grade and "Six" as the worst grade.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
** The show takes place in the UK, but was broadcast for a largely American audience on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. So, the portrayal of schooling is very much American-based and not UK-based, right down to TheMovie taking place at the students' high school graduation... something that doesn't even ''exist'' in the UK, as they don't consider graduating from High School an achievement the same way Americans do. This was most likely done so the American audience could understand what was happening, despite it being unrealistic for the setting.
** The headmaster, Mr. Sweet, is also the school's science teacher. In the show, this just means that he's either in his office doing headmaster work, or teaching the students in the science lab, with little emphasis being made about his dual role. In real life, this would be way too much work, as he'd have to do administrative work in addition to grading papers, giving tests, and actually teaching the class.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
[[AC:Web Original]]
* Comes up frequently and is often PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan''.
** In "Bowser Junior's Homework", Junior has to study for an exam at school the next day. Some of the subjects he has to study include calculus and Chinese, even though he's in Kindergarten. Chef Pee Pee {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this, stating that he shouldn't even have to do that kind of stuff.
** ''Everything'' about Jackie Chu. He gives his students difficult work, such as in the "Bowser Junior's Summer School" series where he gives Junior homework on calculus, he frequently insults his students and calls them dumb (which, considering that he has people like Junior and Jeffy in his class, [[JerkassHasAPoint he's got a point]]), he acts inappropriate sometimes and frequently uses Asian stereotypes, and he once taught his 2nd grade class where babies came from. All the kids [[CoolTeacher think he's cool]], though.
** In the "Bowser Junior's 1st Grade" series, a teacher at Junior's school named Mr. Winkle is revealed to be a [[PaedoHunt pedophile]] and is arrested. At a parent-teacher conference, it's revealed that Principal Steinbeck and Officer Goodman had done a background check on Winkle, which he failed, but they hired him anyway because he called them both hot. They only realized at that point, in front of a bunch of parents that are pissed off at them for letting a pedophile into the school, that they've been tricked.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball's teacher Miss Simian dates the principal of the school, Principal Brown. Relationships between school staff, let alone between a teacher and the principal, are not strictly against the rules or illegal per say, but they are usually frowned upon because of the risk of personal display of affection, especially in front of children.
** In many episodes, Gumball receives detentions that are longer than two hours, such as in "The End" when he and Darwin got detention for six hours. The episode takes place within a time-span of an entire day, which means that they served the detention in one sitting.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': [[EvilTeacher Professor Rotwood]] somehow manages to get away with teaching a class about magical creatures in an ordinary high school. Whilst some fans speculate the class is officially about mythology (which some high schools have been known to offer) and Rotwood's obsessions cause him to shift focus, it still stretches belief he would be able to get away with this for years. Pushing things further, despite being arrested several times throughout the series (including on one occasion for kidnapping ''his own students'') he's always back teaching in the next episode and is even promoted to principal in the second season. There's also the fact he calls himself "Professor" Rotwood despite being a high school teacher, not a college lecturer.
* The last season of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' had an episode where Ginger got [[DetentionEpisode Saturday detention]]. What for, exactly? [[AsleepInClass Sleeping in class]]. While falling asleep in class would warrant a punishment, such as being told off by the teacher or getting a small detention after school on a weekday, no school would give a student that kind of punishment for something so minor. Saturday detentions are reserved for more serious misbehavior.
* [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Suspended", where Clarence and Sumo get [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin suspended from school]]. Mr. Reese actually does try to call their parents to come get them, but he doesn't get an answer. Instead of keeping them until he can get a hold of their parents, he just sends them on their merry way. Of course, if he hadn't done that, then [[ForWantOfANail the two boys wouldn't have been there to save the school from an overheated boiler]].
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated special ''WesternAnimation/HappyNewYearCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown's class is assigned ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' over winter break. Not only would an elementary school teacher not assign such a long and complicated book to read, the students would certainly not be expected to read the whole thing in such a short time; at most they would be assigned a few selected chapters to read. When Charlie Brown does a report on the same book in ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', it's because he chose it to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl (who was assigned his report partner), and not the choice of the teacher.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Morty's math teacher Mr. Goldenfold hands out a test to his students, which has at least six questions that all use addition. It's supposed to be a high school math class.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Everything regarding Springfield Elementary, which is crappy to a point that is absurd or horrifying DependingOnTheWriter. The building is literally falling apart, children are fed ''shredded cushions'', teachers not only ignore bullying but encourage it in a fashion worthy of TheSocialDarwinist and actively seek to destroy children's capacity to be anything but a drone (and not a well-educated one at that), and there is a chapter in the school's charter that says in black and white that they won't care if children are killed under their watch (or at least Bart). The only [[EveryoneHasStandards true absolute limit]] the faculty has in being abusive is in having teachers [[WouldHurtAChild physically attack children]], and even ''that'' depends on the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Most of the staff at South Park Elementary are extremely incompetent at their jobs. The closest thing the school had to a competent, responsible adult was Chef, a womanizing {{Casanova}} whose advice often caused misunderstandings, but he was eventually KilledOffForReal. Things only get worse when Principal Victoria is replaced by [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad PC Principal]], who yells at his students and is willing to ''[[WouldHurtAChild assault them]]'' just for using microaggressions.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School. His teacher, Mrs. Puff, hates him due to him causing destruction during his driver's tests. In spite of him constantly failing, he's still allowed to stay at the driving school where in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go is because she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].
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Indices: ArtisticLicense, AuthorityTropes, SchoolTropes, ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes
Sometimes, this can be the result of EaglelandOsmosis and/or CreatorProvincialism, if the work is set in a country other than the one the creator went to school in and the creator was unable or unwilling to research how that country's school system works. Sometimes, of course, RealityIsUnrealistic; while having a work where American students wear uniforms and refer to the head of the school as a "headmaster" instead of "principal" may seem like this trope, there are many private schools in the U.S. where this is standard practice.
Specific instances of this trope include:
* Schools having outlandish rules or practices that wouldn't be in a real life school or not having a certain rule that they should have in place.
* Schools following a system that does not match the setting/culture of the work. This is especially common with [[WeAllLiveInAmerica American-made works that take place in a non-American setting]].
* Schools having NoOSHACompliance, and issues getting to class, the lunchroom, or the bathroom safely.
* Physical education, in particular, resembling a military training program more than a school which probably has to consider disabilities.
* Punishments ranging from too excessive, to too light, or not happening at all.
* Detentions being insanely long. In real life, weekday detentions usually only last up to two hours after school.
** Detentions having insane punishments, like being forced to wax entire rooms with a toothbrush.
** Actual torture going on in detention.
* The school is a SchoolOfNoStudying, where the kids don't have to do any work despite the fact that it's required.
* Teaching using EEqualsMCHammer-like equations.
* Teachers mistreating students and the school staff will either do nothing or allow it to happen. Can also happen vise-versa.
* Staff-encouraged bullying.
* Teachers being allowed to teach despite having a criminal record, or the school actually having a criminal employment policy... to jobs where even if it were okay to be employing criminals, people of ''that'' crime shouldn't be employed to ''that'' position (a convicted pedophile running day care, for example).
* A school being a TwoTeacherSchool, even though there's WAY too many students.
* School anachronisms. CorporalPunishment would be the most obvious, but others include learning to read with a slate or having centuries-old curriculum. The inverse is also the case, having ancient Greeks with a classroom teaching Women's Studies, for instance.
* Schools having classes that don't ''even exist'' in the real world (Plant Psychology, for example).
* Teachers teaching subjects that are either too difficult or too easy for a grade level.
* Parallels drawn between the classroom and a Soviet-style organization where BigBrotherIsWatching, a military organization, feudal Japan, or some other setting.
* Teachers that are tenured being depicted as unpunishable. In real life, tenured teachers typically have to lose tenure before getting fired (though sometimes this happens in rapid succession), otherwise teachers that break minor rules just expect to get a stern talking to and sent back to the classroom. And in order for someone under tenure to get fired, they would have to hit a kid or say/do something controversial, which is unfortunately TruthInTelevision, as tenured {{sadist teacher}}s are extremely difficult to get rid of.
Note that ValuesDissonance does not apply. If something that happens in a school is acceptable in one place or time period but not another and the setting of the work takes place in the former, then it doesn't count.
A SuperTrope to ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions, which is specific to colleges and how applicants are accepted into post-secondary schooling, and to AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction, where school officials attempt to punish a student for their actions outside of school grounds.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', we have Shota "Eraserhead" Aizawa's infamous (especially InUniverse) act of expelling an entire class of U.A. in the very first day because he didn't thought they would cut it as Heroes (because they didn't took the Quirk Apprehension Test that students take on that day as seriously as Aizawa wanted). While this demonstrates that he is a serious SinkOrSwimMentor ([[TheReveal we find out approximately a couple of hundred chapters later]] that Aizawa only expelled them for a few minutes and re-enrolled them [[ScareEmStraight once the message was finally understood]], and one of the students of that class (now in his second year in U.A.) even shows up to ''thank'' Aizawa for it) the fact still stands that Aizawa performed this action with no red tape getting in the way and even by the current day of the story the people in charge of administering U.A. still have not put anything in place to prevent him from doing it again.
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', DumbJock CrazyJealousGuy Moose constantly gets away with [[AmusingInjuries assaulting other students]] in and out of school with no consequence.
[[AC:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the schoolwork done in Calvin's first grade class ranges from addition to knowing the state capitals, the latter of which is usually not taught to first graders.
[[AC:Films - Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', the titular heroes end up destroying Pokey Oaks Kindergarten (as well as the rest of Townsville) on their first day after using their powers during a game of tag. The next day, they and the other students have to come in despite the school being in shambles. In real life, children would ''NOT'' be allowed to come into a school building that is half destroyed. Classes would either be cancelled or held somewhere else until the original building is fixed.
[[AC:Films - Live-Action]]
[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Trunchbull's reign of terror over the students of Trunchem Hall. Sure, it ''is'' Roald Dahl (who actually wrote about how he had to endure a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors in his autobiography) and AdultsAreUseless so on, but no matter how much Trunchbull goes so over-the-top with her cruelty that it is RefugeInAudacity incarnate, ''somebody'' would have thought it weird to hear their kid talking about how there is a ''freaking Iron Maiden in their school'' or how Trunchbull used a kid as a human cannonball toss, especially because the [[Film/{{Matilda}} film adaptation]] doesn't takes place in England (again, Boarding School of Horrors being TruthInTelevision over there) but in the modern-day United States.
* ''Literature/{{Woodwalkers}}'': Even though this series is set in the US, it still uses the German grade system with "One" as the best grade and "Six" as the worst grade.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
** The show takes place in the UK, but was broadcast for a largely American audience on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. So, the portrayal of schooling is very much American-based and not UK-based, right down to TheMovie taking place at the students' high school graduation... something that doesn't even ''exist'' in the UK, as they don't consider graduating from High School an achievement the same way Americans do. This was most likely done so the American audience could understand what was happening, despite it being unrealistic for the setting.
** The headmaster, Mr. Sweet, is also the school's science teacher. In the show, this just means that he's either in his office doing headmaster work, or teaching the students in the science lab, with little emphasis being made about his dual role. In real life, this would be way too much work, as he'd have to do administrative work in addition to grading papers, giving tests, and actually teaching the class.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
[[AC:Web Original]]
* Comes up frequently and is often PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan''.
** In "Bowser Junior's Homework", Junior has to study for an exam at school the next day. Some of the subjects he has to study include calculus and Chinese, even though he's in Kindergarten. Chef Pee Pee {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this, stating that he shouldn't even have to do that kind of stuff.
** ''Everything'' about Jackie Chu. He gives his students difficult work, such as in the "Bowser Junior's Summer School" series where he gives Junior homework on calculus, he frequently insults his students and calls them dumb (which, considering that he has people like Junior and Jeffy in his class, [[JerkassHasAPoint he's got a point]]), he acts inappropriate sometimes and frequently uses Asian stereotypes, and he once taught his 2nd grade class where babies came from. All the kids [[CoolTeacher think he's cool]], though.
** In the "Bowser Junior's 1st Grade" series, a teacher at Junior's school named Mr. Winkle is revealed to be a [[PaedoHunt pedophile]] and is arrested. At a parent-teacher conference, it's revealed that Principal Steinbeck and Officer Goodman had done a background check on Winkle, which he failed, but they hired him anyway because he called them both hot. They only realized at that point, in front of a bunch of parents that are pissed off at them for letting a pedophile into the school, that they've been tricked.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball's teacher Miss Simian dates the principal of the school, Principal Brown. Relationships between school staff, let alone between a teacher and the principal, are not strictly against the rules or illegal per say, but they are usually frowned upon because of the risk of personal display of affection, especially in front of children.
** In many episodes, Gumball receives detentions that are longer than two hours, such as in "The End" when he and Darwin got detention for six hours. The episode takes place within a time-span of an entire day, which means that they served the detention in one sitting.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': [[EvilTeacher Professor Rotwood]] somehow manages to get away with teaching a class about magical creatures in an ordinary high school. Whilst some fans speculate the class is officially about mythology (which some high schools have been known to offer) and Rotwood's obsessions cause him to shift focus, it still stretches belief he would be able to get away with this for years. Pushing things further, despite being arrested several times throughout the series (including on one occasion for kidnapping ''his own students'') he's always back teaching in the next episode and is even promoted to principal in the second season. There's also the fact he calls himself "Professor" Rotwood despite being a high school teacher, not a college lecturer.
* The last season of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' had an episode where Ginger got [[DetentionEpisode Saturday detention]]. What for, exactly? [[AsleepInClass Sleeping in class]]. While falling asleep in class would warrant a punishment, such as being told off by the teacher or getting a small detention after school on a weekday, no school would give a student that kind of punishment for something so minor. Saturday detentions are reserved for more serious misbehavior.
* [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Suspended", where Clarence and Sumo get [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin suspended from school]]. Mr. Reese actually does try to call their parents to come get them, but he doesn't get an answer. Instead of keeping them until he can get a hold of their parents, he just sends them on their merry way. Of course, if he hadn't done that, then [[ForWantOfANail the two boys wouldn't have been there to save the school from an overheated boiler]].
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated special ''WesternAnimation/HappyNewYearCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown's class is assigned ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' over winter break. Not only would an elementary school teacher not assign such a long and complicated book to read, the students would certainly not be expected to read the whole thing in such a short time; at most they would be assigned a few selected chapters to read. When Charlie Brown does a report on the same book in ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', it's because he chose it to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl (who was assigned his report partner), and not the choice of the teacher.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Morty's math teacher Mr. Goldenfold hands out a test to his students, which has at least six questions that all use addition. It's supposed to be a high school math class.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Everything regarding Springfield Elementary, which is crappy to a point that is absurd or horrifying DependingOnTheWriter. The building is literally falling apart, children are fed ''shredded cushions'', teachers not only ignore bullying but encourage it in a fashion worthy of TheSocialDarwinist and actively seek to destroy children's capacity to be anything but a drone (and not a well-educated one at that), and there is a chapter in the school's charter that says in black and white that they won't care if children are killed under their watch (or at least Bart). The only [[EveryoneHasStandards true absolute limit]] the faculty has in being abusive is in having teachers [[WouldHurtAChild physically attack children]], and even ''that'' depends on the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Most of the staff at South Park Elementary are extremely incompetent at their jobs. The closest thing the school had to a competent, responsible adult was Chef, a womanizing {{Casanova}} whose advice often caused misunderstandings, but he was eventually KilledOffForReal. Things only get worse when Principal Victoria is replaced by [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad PC Principal]], who yells at his students and is willing to ''[[WouldHurtAChild assault them]]'' just for using microaggressions.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School. His teacher, Mrs. Puff, hates him due to him causing destruction during his driver's tests. In spite of him constantly failing, he's still allowed to stay at the driving school where in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go is because she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].
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Indices: ArtisticLicense, AuthorityTropes, SchoolTropes, ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes
