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* Creator/RobertAHeinlein had one InSpace in ''Literature/SpaceCadet''.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}''. A VillainOfTheWeek is the commandant of such a school and when a former student-turned businessman plans to turn it into a normal coed school ([[DeadHorseTrope "No-one wants to play soldier anymore"]]) he arranges an [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accident]] during the ceremonial firing of the school's cannon.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}''. A VillainOfTheWeek is the commandant of such a school and when a former student-turned businessman plans to turn it into a normal coed school ([[DeadHorseTrope "No-one wants to play soldier anymore"]]) he arranges an [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccidentfatal accident]] during the ceremonial firing of the school's cannon.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}''. A VillainOfTheWeek ran such a school and when a former student plans to turn it into a normal coed school, feeling it's a DeadHorseTrope "No-one wants to play soldier anymore", he arranges a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccidentfatal accident]] during the ceremonial firing of the school's cannon.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', where a ZanyScheme to get Billy into a prestigious school succeeds, then he realizes it's a military school he'd have no interest in attending. The episode ends with a montage of him suffering under its staff, and the last shot is Billy [[NoodleIncident inexplicably]] [[BlackComedyBurst in front of]] [[BolivianArmyEnding a firing squad]].

* ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} foe "The General" is a violent war obsessed kid who started causing trouble for them when he returned home to Gotham from Military School.

The idea of the military school is rapidly becoming a DeadHorseTrope. Military schools were more common in ages where service was a family tradition, especially among aristocrats, and large standing armies sought new manpower all the time. They were (and are) also very common in dictatorships where the school seeks to instill loyalty to the regime (such as the Hitler Youth or the Young Baath Party). In modern America, this had once varied; in the 1990's and the late 1980's, it was considered justified for "problem" kids and delinquents whose parents were oft too busy to handle raising them in a nuclear family structure with a 9 to 5 job, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031955/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-gulags.html but thanks to massive publicity of on site abuse, deaths of internees, and extremely harsh and inhumane treatment by both incompetent and criminally aggressive individuals, even its heads,]][[note]]The camp mentioned in question ''horrified'' the notoriously nasty Sheriff Joe Arpaio[[/note]] sending youths to military camps is viewed as borderline child abuse and most such institutions have closed.

''[Jimmy gets knocked unconscious by a flying phonebook that lands on the floor and opens up on a specific page.]''

* A place like this was used as a setting in a ComicBook/SpiderMan story where he was helping ComicBook/ThePunisher uncover a GovernmentConspiracy involving a huge stash of marijuana. Turned out it was being stored there. "Makes sense," claimed Frank. "The government has control, nobody would question the presence of munitions or "supplies" and most importantly, who'd ever suspect school children of guarding the world's largest stash?" Fortunately, they managed to solve the problem without any kids getting hurt, but this was one case where ''Spidey'' got so angry at the guy in charge that ''Frank'' had to hold him back.

* ''Film/AWedding1978'': Muffin met Dino while he was attending the military school next to her house. Her mother is disconcerted to find out that Dino was at the school because he got kicked out of his old school. Several members of the wedding party are cadets from the school.

* A positive version of the trope appeared in ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver''. In the first-season episode "Boarding School", Wally considers going to a military academy instead of going to Mayfield High. Wally's impressed by the military uniform, drilling, horseback riding, and rifle practice. In the end he chooses to stay behind, with his family and friends.
* Again, a positive version of the trope appeared in ''Series/TheLucyShow''. In "Lucy and the Military Academy", Lucy's son Jimmy goes to military school. Jimmy is sent home, not because he's unhappy. It's Lucy makes a nuisance of herself being unable to give him up. Jimmy would later be PutOnABus to military school when Lucy moves to Los Angeles.

* The titular Battle School of Oscar Mike's DLC Story Operation from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' is the training boot camp that all Mike clones must go through upon "birth". Consisting of a series of arena style battles, the Battle School must be completed before Mikes can be deployed into battle proper. In order to rejoin Mike society, Oscar Mike's trial is to go through the Battle School again. Due to General Mike exercising his Clonestitutional right to bureaucratically make things more difficult than necessary, Oscar Mike has to go through the Battle School 10 times.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Being shipped off to one by his father was a defining element of Jake Morgendorffer's character.

* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': After his father is exposed as Hawkmoth and arrested, Adrien ends up in the custody of his Aunt Amelia, who starts him on an online homeschooling regimen. When he threatens to rebel, she calmly states that if his grades slip, she'll [[OffToBoardingSchool ship him off]] to a military school.

* The Smile Away Reformatory from "WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Get Busted" is a [[BreakTheCutie cruel]] and rather unsettling version.

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* Jojo's parents in ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'' send him to General Genghis Khan Schmitz's military academy "for shirkers and dreamers and twits".

A school where not only do you learn reading, writing arithmetic, but also how to march, stand to attention, and shoot a rifle.

* A Pacific Bell from the [[TheNineties late 1990s']] featuring an exasperated dad and his [[BrattyHalfPint video game playing son,]] goes something like this:

* Again, in ''Series/TheLucyShow'', "Lucy and the Military Academy", Lucy's son Jimmy goes to military school. Jimmy is sent home, not because he's unhappy. It's Lucy makes a nuisance of herself being unable to give him up. Jimmy would later be PutOnABus to military school when Lucy moves to Los Angeles.

* In the first ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' game, children whose grades stay at F for several days are sent off to military school for the rest of their lives -- they disappear from the family forever. This is different to later games in the ''VideoGame/TheSims'' series, where they're taken away by a social worker (as is the case should they're neglected fundamental needs like food and hygiene) instead.

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* In the first ''VideoGame/TheSims'' game, children whose grades stay at F for several days are sent off to military school for the rest of their lives -- they disappear from the family forever.

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A school where not only do you learn mathematics, but how to shoot a rifle.

* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', Reinhard von Lohengramm (then Müsel) and Siegfried Kircheis attended a military preparatory school at the age of 10 and eventually graduating at the top of their class and joining the military when they were 15.

* Today this trope is not TruthInTelevision for straightening out any disobedient or out-of-control minors. Military schools are very much like private schools and don't take just anybody. Like a private school or boarding school, part of the selective admissions process is an interview where the prospective student gets questioned on why they want to attend. As a general rule, many military schools will not accept defiant or clearly unwilling applicants. The "military school is juvie for rich kids" trope is now a DiscreditedTrope and had its' prime in the mid 20th century when there were more such institutions to the point the supply of such places outstripped the demand of willing applicants.

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