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The opposite of [[Elaborate University High]], a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|Cold War era information]] at best. It may or may not be an [[Assimilation Academy]]. The school is often full of [[Sadist Teacher|ridiculously mean teachers]] and run by an [[Dean Bitterman|even worse principal]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Les Choristes]]'' centres on a failed musician, who accepts a job at a school for delinquent boys, the name of which translates to [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[The Faculty]]'', there is a scene early on that takes place at a faculty meeting, where they are deciding how to divide the school's budget. Much to the teachers' chagrin, money that could be used for buying new textbooks or putting on a [[School Play]] other than ''[[Our Town]]'' (which they did last year) is instead directed towards the football team, because, as [[Bebe Neuwirth|Principal Drake]] explains, [[Serious Business|they live in a football town]].
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* ''[[Mr. D]]'''s Xavier Academy ''looks'' like an [[Elaborate University High]], but they have the title character as a teacher. And the others aren't ''that'' much better.
* Greendale Community College of ''[[Community]]'' is half this and half just bizarre. There aren't really mean teachers, however. Instead, the faculty seems to be composed of incompetent [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloud Cuckoolanders]] of every description. There are also money issues:
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== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
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== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Springfield Elementary]] is regularly noted to be on a shoestring budget.
* [[South Park]] Elementary. Very few teachers (one of them being the bewilderingly incapable Mr. Garrison, even) and all.
* The "Skool" from ''[[Invader Zim]]'' is regularly acknowledged as both militant and under budget. Illustrative of this are the "hall passes", from the "Dark Harvest" episode, the first being a collar that explodes upon leaving school premises and the "auxilliary hall pass" being a radiator the student is expected to lug around.
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== [[Video Game]] ==
* Bullworth Academy in ''[[Bully (
== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: American public schools were originally created primarily to educate factory workers, not "men of letters". After public education became mostly available, schools were still somewhat bad as the teachers were more focused on "lickin' instead o' larnin", licking meaning [[Sadist Teacher|paddling]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705183509/http://www.xomba.com/too_few_desks_future_essay_school_crowding This] article, written by a recent Oregon high school graduate, illustrates just how sucky American schools can be.
* This was enforced in the American South before [[Civil Rights Movement|schools were integrated]]. While the "separate but equal" doctrine meant that, in theory, schools for white and black students had to be treated the same way, in practice this was never enforced, and the black schools had the worst of
* Due to corruption and shoddy funding (along with a general preferential treatment towards private, usually Catholic-run schools), a large chunk of public schools in the Philippines sadly fit this trope. More often than not one would either find typo-filled textbooks, flip-flopping standards, incomplete classrooms, ''unfinished'' buildings or worse ''all of the above.'' The irony becomes even more pronounced when one considers the fact that this descended from the original American system...
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