Boarding School of Horrors: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': Ange's time at St. Lucia Academy was made pretty miserable because she had no friends and she was often bullied mercilessly by her classmates. The teachers never were around to put a stop to it either. It got so bad that she ordered the Seven Sisters of Purgatory to kill her classmates. {{spoiler|And when they couldn't (because they could only do it when Ange herself was willing to do it with her own hands), she denied their existence.}}

* ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'' has the titular school, which seems to involve children being abused horribly, sent on dangerous missions and forbidden to contact their families.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The ''St. Trinian's'' public school for girls, as illustrated by Ronald Searle's wonderful comics.

* A three-issue story arc in [[Excalibur The Comicbook|''Excalibur'']] had Kitty Pryde attend one of these, complete with being specifically targeted by the popular girls, when the rest of her team had gone missing.

 

== Fan Works ==

* Played for laughs in the [[Fanfic]] ''Official Fanfiction University'' metaseries. Being taken to a school where the teachers are all your favourite book or movie characters sounds like fun until you realise that [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|they have seen the fanfic you write about them.]] And they are not flattered.

* Lily Potter attends one in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''[[Petal in the Rain]]'' by pratty-prongs-princesse.

 

== Film ==

* The Korean Horror Movie ''Destination Hell'' takes place in one of these.

* And the Korean drama ''[[The Crucible (2011 Korean film)||The Crucible]]'', based on the true story of a sex abuse scandal at a school for the hearing-impaired, which was suffered by both resident and non-resident students.

 

== Literature ==

** The downside of the Assassins' Guild is that the number of students tends to be considerably smaller at the end of the year than it was at the beginning due to the student rivalries.

** Discworld also has Hugglestones, a boarding school for the sons of the very rich designed to turn boys into men... apparently by making them play a lot of violent full-contact sports and only allowing those who survive (either by brute force or just being smart enough to avoid the scrum while still acting like they're involved in the action) to graduate. It's also described as physically resembling a maximum-security prison, with the difference that prison inmates get better treatment.

* Hogwarts turns into this in [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]]'', thanks to Umbridge (former trope namer for [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]).

** It gets mostly better in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]'', then rather a lot worse under the Carrow siblings in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]]''. As the [[Power Trio]] have dropped out to pursue Horcruxes, we mostly only hear about the horrors secondhand.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s young adult novel ''Red Planet'', the main characters are sent to a dispassionately oppressive boarding school where the headmaster attempts to steal the hero's (sentient) pet and the heroes discover a plot against the entire colony.

 

* The Graybridge school in "Tomkinson's Schooldays", the pilot episode of the Narnia parody ''[[Ripping Yarns]]''. At Graybridge, School Bully is actually an official position functioning as a one-man [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]].

** "I was seventeen miles from Graybridge before I was caught by the school leopard."

* Jennie Garth starred in a [[Lifetime Movie]] style ''[[Without Consent]]'' which is basically about teenage "re-education" facilities (see Real Life below). Along with torturing the students in their control, whether they've actually done anything wrong or not, the program ditches a clearly-troubled young man as soon as his parents' insurance runs out of money, claiming that he is now "cured". {{spoiler|He kills himself.}}

* ''[[Tower Prep]]'', where kids with special gifts are knocked out and wake up at this school with no explanation, have no idea where they are, a giant wall keeps them from leaving, they are not allowed to contact the outside, and they are pretty much forced to act like they are simply normal students.

 

== Radio ==

** Antarctic House is even worse.

 

* One of the characters in ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' is sent to such a school.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' takes place in one of these. It starts out miserable and ends up just really sucky. Cliques run the school, classism runs rampant, and physical violence is just about the only way to solve your problems.

* According to herself, the 'famous actress' Gloria Van Gouten in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' went to one of these. Then again, considering how we found out, and Gloria's condition, it may not be true.

 

== Web Original ==