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* Subverted in ''[[xxxHolic]]'' with {{spoiler|Watanuki. Doumeki tries telling him he can't just stay in the shop, he has to go to school. Actually, no Doumeki. Cause I've made an agreement to run this shop and live without aging until Yuuko returns, and I can't leave until that happens.}}
* In ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', the titular character is an alien who is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Twelve Thousand Years Old]], but looks like a third grader. While spying on her half-human son in high school, she's caught by a teacher and sent to elementary school, and she continues to attend, as seen in later episodes.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Shin'ichi Kudo from ''[[Detective Conan]]'' is already a teenager. Then he gets turned into a little kid and ends up having to go back to ''elementary school''.
** This is also the case for Ai Haibara, 18 years old, and [[Child Prodigy|the developer of the]] aforementioned [[Fountain of Youth]].
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* Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, and Edward from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' all go to school, though Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper eventually graduate. Over the years, however, all of them have done this repeatedly. This is supposedly necessary because the younger they claim to be at the beginning, the longer they can live in one place without arousing suspicion because they don't age. Plus, it just looks weird to have a couple move in with their 5 barely-adult kids. But if the kids are still minors? Not odd at all.
** Of course, the constant lies regarding [[Our Vampires Are Different|sunny days]] and <s>feeding</s> field trips make it seem like it would be easier to say they were being homeschooled.
*** It would also let them stay in one place longer, as they would be monitored less and therefore the fact they weren't ageing would be less obvious. Less interaction with others would also both lower the chance of their secret being discovered and mean they wouldn't have to work so hard to avoid biting people.
* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'', when Darren attends school to avoid drawing undue attention to himself.
* Despite being a supergenius (and an evil one at that), ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'''s parents insist he attend [[Boarding School|St. Bartleby's something-or-other]].
** He didn't go to school in the first book, when his mother was completely insane. Later on, he was made to go back, which makes sense from his parent's point of view as they probably want him to be normal (him mother even forced him to ''wear a T-shirt). He still found it annoying.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]]'' has a few students who were originally well beyond high school or even college age: Sara Waite was once a best-selling author and Caitlin used to be an instructor at the school and a former Marine.
** In both of those cases, part of the in-world justification is the need for a safe hiding place (it seems that the word 'safe' has a different meaning in the this world...) where their apparent age wouldn't be a problem. However, this same logic applies to Samantha Everhart, except that she appears to be over school age, so she became a member of the Security force instead; why Carmilla and Eldritch needed to be students instead of, say, instructors, was always a bit shaky, especially in Sara's case (she's [[Shapeshifting|perfectly capable of taking on an adult form]]). Added justification does come from the need to master their new abilities (and hormones), however.
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