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A school where not only do you learn mathematics, but how to shoot a rifle.
Military schools are institutions which aim to instill military-style discipline in students. Often the explicit goal of such schools is to prepare students for military careers. The military school is intended for minors, as opposed to the [[Military Academy]] which trains at the undergraduate university level.
The idea of the military school is rapidly becoming a dead horse trope. Military schools were more common in ages where service was a family tradition, especially among aristocrats. 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, strict discipline is viewed as borderline child abuse and most such institutions have closed.
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' - While strictly not exactly an military school, due to the size of SSS, one of the biggest organizations within students, all students attending there have a high chance of learning how to use firearms.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' - The Time-Space Administration Bureau Military Academies.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' - The [[Magic Knight]] Cadet Classes of Ariadne {{spoiler|which Yue Ayase joins when she was trapped with amnesia in [[Magic World|Mundus Magicus]]}}.
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* Schola Progenium in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' takes in Emperor Servants' orphans at a pretty young age, so for several lower levels it's pretty much this trope, and this can be seen in a couple of the tie-in novels that [[Demoted to Extra|bother to mention Schola at all]], like ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Cain's Last Stand]]''. For older cadets already taking special courses it's more like Military Academy, though.
* ''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 Torless]]'' is supposed to be set at one of these, in 19th century Austria-Hungary.
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