History Main / ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Skips' Story" reveals a teenage Skips (then known as Walks) to have been expelled from three high schools in a single year for "fighting and pugilistic tendencies." Headmaster Bennett warns him that he will be expelled from his school if he gets into one more fight at his school.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' Tim's Brentwood classmate Buzz Cohen is only at the boarding school because he was expelled from all the other schools in the area due to his quickly changing moods and tendency to swing unexpectedly into violence.

* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': Used to HandWave Harry Osborne attending the same public school as Peter despite coming from an incredibly wealthy family. It's said that he was kicked out of every private school his father had him sent to.

Despite this unfortunately being TruthInTelevision for many people, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* The {{pilot}} ''WesternAnimation/CarmenGotExpelled'' is about a teenager named Carmen who is given one more chance at finishing school after being accepted into a private academy. Carmen has to make sure she doesn't get expelled again.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' Tim's Brentwood classmate Buzz Cohen is only at the boarding school because he was expelled from all the other schools in the area due to his quickly changing moods and tendency to swing unexpectedly into violence.

* [[Literature/FateStrangeFake Flat]] [[LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles Escardos]] got dropped like a hot potato by every single teacher in the Clock Tower except Lord El-Melloi II, who normally only gets the absolute best and brightest students. Flat is actually a very powerful mage; it's just that his grasp on magical theory and reality in general is so shaky everyone around him can sense there's something ''off'' about him, and his CloudCuckoolander tendencies don't help. At all.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Skips' Story" reveals a teenage Skips (then known as Walks) to have been expelled from three high schools in a single year for "fighting and pugilistic tendencies." Headmaster Bennett warns him that he will be expelled if he gets into one more fight at his school.

** It's not made into a big deal, but ClassClown Alfie's reason for not staying at the sit-in protest with Patricia, Fabian, and Nina is that Victor had threatened them all with expulsion, and, in his own words, "My Parental Units would freak if I got kicked out of yet ''another'' school." Though he's known for joking, with the characterization of his parents as strict and displeased with him, it's likely he really has been expelled from other schools due to his immature nature.

* Dexter Fishpaw, discussed at the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE Frontier Psychiatrist]] by Music/TheAvalanches (actually a sample from the Creator/JohnWaters film Film/{{Polyester}}).

* Dexter Fishpaw, discussed at the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE Frontier Psychiatrist]] by Music/TheAvalanches.

Compare/Contrast with TragicDropout. Might be a reason for a character becoming a NewTransferStudent or the school's TokenRichStudent, and may result in the character going to a DustbinSchool or MilitarySchool.

* In ''Series/UglyBetty'', Wilhelmina's daughter Nico has been kicked out of every prestigious private school her mother's sent her to, largely as a [[WhenYouComingHomeDad cry for attention]]. Wilhelmina eventually starts to reconcile with Nico, and sends her to the one school in Paris that hadn't heard of her yet.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', PlayerCharacter Joker gets expelled from his high school after getting convicted of assault, and no other school would take him aside from Shujin Academy, which is a stuffy elite preparatory school, all while on probation for the assault. Multiple characters note that, if Joker gets expelled from Shujin, he's going straight to jail.

* In ''The Twinkie Squad'' by Gordon Korman, Douglas Fairchild (son of a US Ambassador and the only average person in a family of exceptional people) deals with his insecurities by acting bizarre so he doesn't have to be compared with his more successful siblings. He's tossed out of every private school in Washington, D.C. until the public school system is the only option left.

* ''Literature/HiddenTalents'': Edgeville Alternative is the DustbinSchool for students ([[spoiler:and teachers]]) that no other school will take. The protagonist Martin is transferred there at the beginning of the book after one too many verbal altercations with teachers, but comes to bond with other students who got booted out of the conventional school system due to [[spoiler: their [[PowerIncontinence unrealized]] PsychicPowers]].