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* Defied in ''[[PS238]]''. The title is the name of Public School 238—a super-hero-run school, devoted entirely towards raising metahuman children. When the school's representatives are dragged in front of Senate, at least one senator raises his doubts about how the school won't end up like this, and the representative takes time to explain how that's not the case. It's repeatedly shown over the course of the comic that [[PS238]] is no more indoctrinating than most normal public schools (if anything it's even less so). Later in the comic the school gets an [[Evil Counterpart]] in the private Praetorian Academy, which is a lot closer to this trope.
** Later on, Praetorian Academy {{Spoiler|is revealed to actually be a government-controlled facility intended for at-risk superpowered youth, making its "draft board" nature more like reform school or juvie. As part of its strategy for actually getting would-be juvenile supervillains to stay there, it doesn't actually ''admit'' its a reform school and instead pretends to be a supervillain-controlled facility.}}
*** Rather realistically, there are several very different interests behind it, all with their own ideas of what PA does and what it should do. The sneaky politician who runs it, his backers (he must have some allies, if only to cover up the excesses, and this can't be one-sided for very long), the school AI, von Foggs (the principal plans to use them as [[Fall Guy]]s in case of troubles, but if senior von Fogg didn't understand [[Realpolitik]], he won't get away for this long with supervillainy ''or'' sovereignty, let alone both - the rhetoric we have seen doesn't suggest enough differences that interventionists could be anathema in that [[Alternate Universe]])...
** The series also introduces two kid heroes, American Eagle and USA Patriot Act, who are both being raised from infancy (by rival political parties) as the intended replacement to the setting's Captain America [[Expy]], who is anticipated to be retiring within a decade. Both of those kids are indoctrinated so heavily that they start out almost entirely incapable of ''not'' talking in sound-bites and cliches, and its strongly implied that the only reason PS238 accepted them as students is because that is the only way they can gain any influence at all over these two kids' upbringing, get them at least partly away from their handlers, and inject some actual ''sanity''. So 'we hate the Mutant Draft Board' is definitely a consistent theme of PS238.
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