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* The Tenchi Gakuen in ''[[Hayate X× Blade]]'' not only encourages fighting, actually all students are part of an in-school kendô championship with great monetary prizes for the winning [[Battle Couple|teams]].

* In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', students at Dudley's new school, Smeltings, are given "knobbly sticks used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life."

* Various ''[[Discworld]]'' examples including, but not limited to:

** The Assassins' Guild School. It is first referenced in ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' as a place which less fortunate scholars at the Fools' Guild School next door look at in helpless envy and longing. The Fools are tormented by the happy piping voices of young people at a school they love drifting over the dividing wall. However, as the Assassins value competitive examination, the number of happy piping voices grows considerably ''less'' towards the end of each term.

*** The Assassins' School is expanded upon in the opening quarter or so of ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]''. Terry Pratchett noted that to create the school, all he had to do was to take a typical British boarding (fee-paying) school with a long pedigree, and turn all the knobs up past eleven. ''"Especially the one marked "violence"''.

** By the time of ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]'', the Assassins' School has gone co-educational. As the female of the species is, if not more deadly than the male, then at least ''nastier'', the new generation of women teachers, such as Miss Alice Band, are capable of sending students out on potentially kamikaze assignments, such as targeting Commander Sam Vimes. A student called Jocasta Wiggs learns to her cost and the loss of personal dignity that Sam is well-protected.

** In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'' we learn of a more conventional boys' school, Hugglestone Academy, a dour grey granite edifice out on the bleak moorlands where boys are sent to be turned into ''men''. This process is accepted to entail a certain degree of ''wastage'', among the fat, lame, lazy and effeminate.

** The Quirm Academy for Young Ladies, which appears in ''[[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'', might be its female equivalent. It employs a sports mistress nicknamed Iron Ronnie, who is as tough and uncompromising as any male equivalent in [[Gym Class Hell]]. Sybil Ramkin was a pupil here and ruefully remembers that a closed community of girls can be as unsympathetic and prone to bullying as a male school. Only the weapons used are not physical. Oh no, nothing so trivial. Women are ''nastier''.

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