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* Seen as too important to the school's sports team of choice (usually [[Useful Notes/American Football|American football]]) so teachers let them slide or assign them "tutors" who are in fact there to do their homework for them.
* Because Daddy is on the board of governors of the school, that or he [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|pulls out his credit card]] and gives the school a new swimming pool if they promise to let his little angel get A's.
Unlike [[Dumb Is Good]], this is an example of the dim bulbs on a show being the mean ones. The exception to this is when the cool kids are seen as nice, where if this trope is in play they'll become [[The Ditz]], or [[The Brainless Beauty]] (though a mean popular kid could be a [[Brainless Beauty]] too). This is a trope that rarely shows up in anime, because in anime the popular kids tend to be intelligent, unrealistically beautiful, aloof and [[Loners Are Freaks|wouldn't be popular in the real life Western World.]]
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See also: [[Alpha Bitch]], [[The Cheerleader]], [[Jerk Jock]], [[The Ditz]], [[The Brainless Beauty]]. This is often the cause of [[Future Loser]].
Not to be confused with [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Loveless]]'': Someone researching Ritsuka's backstory discovered he used to be popular and got poor grades. Thanks to [[Domestic Abuse|various events]] he became anti-social and introverted. And his grades improved? [[Family
** He was already being abused before that. His grades improved after his brother died. Which isn't much better, actually.
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