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* This trope is the main plot of a category of Website/GoAnimate "Grounded" videos, wherein usually one, two, or more students start out in the 12th grade and keep knocking themselves all the way back to preschool before being expelled and sent home ([[OncePerEpisode with]] [[YouAreGrounded predictable results]]) by getting themselves in trouble by injuring a classmate or teacher, being disruptive, and/or merely making someone mad.

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* This trope is the main plot of a category of Website/GoAnimate Platform/GoAnimate "Grounded" videos, wherein usually one, two, or more students start out in the 12th grade and keep knocking themselves all the way back to preschool before being expelled and sent home ([[OncePerEpisode with]] [[YouAreGrounded predictable results]]) by getting themselves in trouble by injuring a classmate or teacher, being disruptive, and/or merely making someone mad.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'': "[[Recap/Robotomy03NoChildLeftBenign No Child Left Benign]]": Failure to complete the No Child Left Benign standardized test is punished with, besides enslavement in the Tygerian acid mines, being forced to repeat the ninth grade. The students find the second issue to be far more intimidating than the enslavement.
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* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': At the start of the movie, a couple of the teachers is grousing about having Kenickie in their classes ''again'', saying he's been at the school longer than they have, implying he's been held back more than once already.

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* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': At the start of the movie, a couple of the teachers is are grousing about having Kenickie in their classes ''again'', saying he's been at the school longer than they have, implying he's been held back more than once already.
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* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': At the start of the movie, a couple of the teachers is grousing about having Kenickie in their classes ''again'', saying he's been at the school longer than they have, implying he's been held back more than once already.
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That is Grade Skipper, not this trope.


* Tomoe from ''Manga/WhisperedWords'' had to skip a year in order to save her family's company from bankruptcy (yeah, she is a TeenGenius, alright), so she is basically one year older than the rest of the cast.

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* Sam from ''Literature/TheManyHalfLivedLivesOfSamSylvester'' spent the first seven years of their life in foster care, where they received almost no education. They're still a year behind everyone else, which is why they're still in high school despite being almost 19.



* Sam from ''Literature/TheManyHalfLivedLivesOfSamSylvester'' spent the first seven years of their life in foster care, where they received almost no education. They're still a year behind everyone else, which is why they're still in high school despite being almost 19.

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* Sam from ''Literature/TheManyHalfLivedLivesOfSamSylvester'' ''Literature/WildOrchid'':
** Taylor spent an extra year in kindergarten to work on her social skills because of her undiagnosed Asperger's.
** After Martin Phoenix was born with cerebral palsy, his older brother Luke and his father Alan
spent the first seven years of their life in foster care, where they received almost no education. They're still a next year behind everyone else, which is why they're still in high taking him to different hospitals. Luke missed so much school despite being almost 19.that he had to repeat a year.

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