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* ''[[Child's Play (film)|Childs Play]] III''. In the first movie, the main character's living with his parents {{spoiler|who die}}, so in the second he's living with his foster parents {{spoiler|who die}}, so in the third he gets [[The Other Darrin|Darrined]] and sent to military school where {{spoiler|people die}}.
* ''Taps'' - a
* ''[[Up the Academy]]'' - a comedic take.
* ''The Lords of Discipline'' - a group of senior cadets try to force freshman cadets they disapprove of to leave their
** Lords of Discipline is about more than just the Citadel. Its a fictional college that is a mash-up of Citadel, VMI, and West Point, though the author did go to the Citadel.
* ''Cadet Kelly''
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* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' with the Battle School.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] had one [[In Space]] in ''[[Space Cadet (novel)|Space Cadet]]''.
* Schola Progenium in ''[[Warhammer
* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'' by David Morrell. The protagonists are from an orphanage where the children are raised to be patriotic cannon fodder for the US military.
* ''[[The Confusions of Young
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* In the first few seasons of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]],'' eldest brother Francis attends one of these.
* An episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' parodied this, combining it with a Cinderella story. "You forgot your... boot?"
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "Army of One". Tony Soprano and his wife Carmela disagree over whether to send their son A.J. to a
* ''[[Dead Like Me]].'' - A military school features as the site of a reap. Inverted in that the soon-to-be-dead cadet loves the school and constantly pushes herself to excel. {{spoiler|She dies on the obstacle course, where a safety rope breaks just as she makes it to the top of the tower climb.}}
* Arthur Carlson from ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' had a son going to one of these, 'Prussian Valley'. He learns that his son's flunking out, but lets him hold onto his [[The "B" Grade]] excuse for leaving, and enrolls him in public school.
* Another more positive portrayal is in the ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' episode "Goodbye To All That".
* A [[Chekhov's Gun]] in the ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'' novel ''The Last Straw''
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== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Bart get forced into one of these. Lisa ends up joining as well because she liked the rigid structure and the fact that it was actually teaching stuff.
* Parodied in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* The Exofleet Academy in ''[[Exo Squad]]''. Although it doesn't appear in the series itself, it plays an important role in e.g. Coleen O'Reilly's [[Backstory]] ({{spoiler|the Neosapien War began on the day of her graduation from the Academy and she was one of the few cadets to have survived the onslaught}}).
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Bobby attended a military school for one episode.
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