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== [[Film]] ==
* Seen as early as ''[[Blackboard Jungle]]''
* ''[[To Sir, With Love]]'' showed this trope applies across the pond.
* ''[[Save The Last Dance]]'' takes place in one of these, with the heroine becoming the [[Token Minority]] - and she's white.
* ''[[Class of 1984]]'' and the sci-fi pseudo-sequels ''Class of 1999'' and ''Class of 1999 II''.
* ''[[Lean on Me]]''
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* ''[[High School High]]'' is a parody of films where a teacher tries to inspire inner city schoolkids.
* ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'', based on LouAnne Johnson's autobiographical account ''My Posse Don't Do Homework''. While the high school itself might be well off, the bussed in kids are typical of the trope.
** The TV show is more typical of the trope than the movie.
** The [[Web TV]] group [[College Humor]] did a parody of the trailer for ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'', set in a school like this for wizards, with [[Harry Potter|Hermione Granger]] as the teacher.
*** [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5803618/dangerous-wands It is even better than it sounds!]
* ''The Substitute'' and its sequels, which were chock full of [[Mighty Whitey]] posturing and [[Unfortunate Implications|wholesale slaughter]] of [[Eagle Land|Mexican students]].
* In the [[Loosely Based On A True Story]] movie ''[[Freedom Writers]]'', the main character tries to change the school she works at from this.
* The Italian film ''[[Ciao Professore]]'' is basically ''[[To Sir, With Love]]'' with little Italian kids.
* ''[[Wild Cats]]''
* ''[[The Principal]]''.
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* ''[[Up The Down Staircase]]'', from the point of view of a teacher who is a novice, and is thus willing to try.
* The school where Precious of ''[[Push]]'' by Sapphire goes.
* Parker [[Junior High]] in ''[[Ethan, Suspended]]''. Not played entirely straight in that, while it may have security cameras and uniforms instead of soap in the bathrooms and textbooks printed in recent decades, it's a fully-functioning school where actual learning takes place.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* Used in an episode of ''[[Without a Trace]]''.
* ''[[Bronx Zoo]]''.
* Fourth season of ''[[The Wire]]'' that takes place at the [[Middle School]] Randy, Dukie, and Michael attend and is particularly brutal and honest example of how they subconsciously prepare the kids for a life of dealing resulting in some of the series' biggest [[Tear Jerker|tear jerkers]].
* Featured in two episodes of ''[[Cold Case]]'', ''8:03 AM'' and especially ''True Calling''
* Another UK example; Hope Park [[The Good Old British Comp|Comprehensive]] in 1990s [[Lenny Henry]] vehicle ''[[Hope And Glory]]''. Henry plays a "superhead" of the kind that were [[Ripped from the Headlines|in the UK news at the time]], trying to [[Save Our Students|turn around]] a school where the sixth form centre was burnt down, and the former head ([[Peter Davison]]) turns his leaving speech into a rant about how worthless it all is.
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