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And there are touches just to show how bad things are, like cages around the clocks, just to keep the students from messing with them.
This is where the [[Save Our Students]] plot usually takes place (but not always). They are often multi-ethnic enough to throw together a [[Five-Token Band]]. There is no [[In
The uniform of choice involves piercings, hair spray painted every color of the spectrum, leather jackets, and/or baggy jeans showing off students' colorful boxers.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ishiyama High, the [[Delinquents]] school from ''[[
* ''[[Cromartie High School]]''.
* <s> Hirin High</s> Every high school mentioned in ''[[
* All the high schools in Takahashi Hiroshi's works. Both ''[[The Crows]]'' and ''[[Worst]]'' take place in the infamous Suzuran High. Bonus points for the extreme realism of the settings (not of the people, but hey, it's a shounen after all).
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* ''[[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
* ''[[Stand and Deliver]]''
* ''[[High School High]]'' is a parody of films where a teacher tries to inspire inner city schoolkids.
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* 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.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Principal]]''.
* The French movie ''Entre les murs'' (literally "Between the walls", English title is ''The Class'') is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau, a teacher in Paris who taught at one of these schools.
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* ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]''
* ''[[Boston Public]]''
* Used in an episode of ''[[
* ''[[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 ''[[
* 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.
* This trope was rather acidly parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s this MadTV sketch].
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