History Main / AfterSchoolCleaningDuty

* In ''TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', Keima meets Elsie for the first time because Ayumi dumped all the after school cleaning duties on him.

* [[http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=830&catid=23&subcatid=150 This article]] has a section on school cleaning Japan; which explains the reasons given for why schools in Japan use staff and students instead of having janitors or cleaners.

* Sara and Becky does this as one of their many duties as maids in ''Anime/ShokojoSera''.

* ''Gakuen Alice'': Mikan gets stuck with this job as a no-star.

* Mrs. Brinks always makes AngelaAnaconda clap erasers after school. Angela has gotten BeyondTheImpossible good at it.

* ''EasyA'' had the main character and the token gay meet for the first time like this.

* Tedd and Elliot in ''ElGoonishShive'' had to stay to catch their experiment that [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-01-28 unexpectedly came to life]]

* Shows up in ''AzumangaDaioh'' for ADayInTheLife of Chiyo. Tomo just plays. Ayumu tries, but has some difficulties with the equipment.

* In Winx Club, the Winx Club is often grounded and the punishment is often cleaning the school while the rest of Alfea goes to a concert or another social activity. Usually their love interests come to help them and it turns into a party, and the evil villains usually show up too. [[/folder]]

* In Winx Club, the Winx Club is often grounded and the punishment is often cleaning the school while the rest of Alfea goes to a concert or another social activity. Usually their love interests come to help them and it turns into a party, and the evil villains usually show up too.

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* In ''FanFic/KyonBigDamnHero'' Kyon is shown doing this a few times.
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* Takashi Yamazaki (the class president) told Syaoran to do this as a bit of light hazing in ''CardCaptorSakura''.

A common trope in school-life stories, After School Cleaning Duty serves to get a single character or small group alone, away from their peers and outside of teacher supervision. This could be a setup for an accidental romantic meeting between the male and female leads, or a chance for TheLibby or TheBully to torment the character without fear of interruption. In {{Horror}} stories, an empty school can become a creepy setting for any student assigned to cleaning duty who is unfortunate enough to be stuck there alone with the MonsterOfTheWeek.

TheWallflower will often accept cleaning duty without complaint, even if the job is passed off to her by another student. More rebellious students will seek to get out of After School Cleaning Duty if at all possible... failing that, they will take the opportunity to see what ''other'' kinds of trouble they can get into while no one else is around.

* In the ''HarryPotter'' series, this is often given as a detention at Hogwarts. There is usually a requirement that the cleaning must be performed without magic.

* The Beverly Cleary book ''Ellen Tebbits'' is an unusual example where the main character ''wants'' to clap erasers at recess, and thinks her teacher hates her because she's never picked for it.

* One of Clark's changes at East Side in ''Lean on Me'' is to have detention students help pick up trash and clean up graffiti.

* In [[''TheGreatBrain The Great Brain at the Academy'']], cleaning the bathrooms and PeelingPotatoes are two of the standard punishments. Tom finds a bright side to it when he finds the dormitory bathroom provides a handy way to sneak out of the school to buy candy. Even when they're not being punished, every student has an assigned area to clean and has to take a turn helping in the kitchen.

The final bell rings, signifying the end of the school day. While most of the kids are gathering their things and preparing to head home, a small group has resigned themselves to staying behind, as it is their turn for AfterSchoolCleaningDuty. They must make sure that the desks are straightened, the chalk board is cleaned, dust is beaten out of erasers, and the trash cans are emptied before they can leave. For some, this assignment may have been given as punishment for getting caught [[AsleepInClass sleeping in class]]. For others it may simply be their turn for duties shared amongst all the students in the class, or part of ClassRep and club membership responsibilities.

A common trope in school-life stories, AfterSchoolCleaningDuty serves to get a single character or small group alone, away from their peers and outside of teacher supervision. This could be a setup for an accidental romantic meeting between the male and female leads, or a chance for TheLibby or TheBully to torment the character without fear of interruption. In {{Horror}} stories, an empty school can become a creepy setting for any student assigned to cleaning duty who is unfortunate enough to be stuck there alone with the MonsterOfTheWeek.

TheWallflower will often accept cleaning duty without complaint, even if the job is passed off to them by another student. More rebellious individuals will seek to get out of AfterSchoolCleaningDuty if at all possible... failing that, they will take the opportunity to see what ''other'' kinds of trouble they can get into while no one else is around.

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* ''{{Project A-ko}}'': At one point A-ko is assigned AfterSchoolCleaningDuty for being habitually LateForSchool. While it went well at first, with A-ko using her super strength to easily stack up the desks, a run in with B-ko's gang left the classroom (and a good portion of the school itself) completely demolished, much to her teacher's chagrin.

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* In ''TheGraveyardBook'', Bod haunts Mo when she has to stay after school to clean the science lab.

* [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] has been punished in this manner more than a few times.

* Every school-based shojo manga or anime. ''EVER.''