History Main / AfterSchoolCleaningDuty

* Alluded to occasionally on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. In "Spare That Rod!", while cleaning Mr. Conklin's office, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass find an old letter to Mr. Darwell, Mr. Conklin's predecessor as principal. They type Mr. Conklin's name on the ten-year-old envelope... HilarityEnsues.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Alluded to occasionally on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. In "Spare That Rod!", while cleaning Mr. Conklin's office, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass find an old letter to Mr. Darwell, Mr. Conklin's predecessor as principal. They type Mr. Conklin's name on the ten-year-old envelope . . . HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'': Beaver's occasionally seen cleaning erasers or the like. In "Beaver's Crush", Beaver volunteering to cleanup for Miss Canfield leads to the other students calling him a TeachersPet.

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

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Takashi Yamazaki (the class president) told Syaoran to do this as a bit of light hazing.

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 have resigned themselves to staying behind, as it is their turn for After School Cleaning Duty. 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 [[PunishmentDetail 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.

This trope can lead to characters being accidentally [[LockedInARoom locked in a storage closet]], especially if a potential love interest is helping out. This trope can be especially troublesome for [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld students who double as super heroes]], as an ill-timed battle or a misuse of supernatural abilities can leave the area they were supposed to clean looking even worse the next day.

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': At the very begining of the series, SadistTeacher Mita assigns protagonist Kazuki the job of pulling weeds from the job of pulling weeds from the courtyard after school as punishment for loosing his school-issue bag. It turns out that the teacher is really the [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculus]] that had [[FirstEpisodeResurrection killed Kazuki the night before]] and only gave him the cleaning duty so he could [[ImAHumanitarian eat him]] somewhere there would be no witnesses.

* Shows up in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' for ADayInTheLife of Chiyo. Tomo just plays. Ayumu tries, but has some difficulties with the equipment.
* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', Keima meets Elsie for the first time because Ayumi dumped all the after school cleaning duties on him.

* The first chapter/episode of ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'' has a couple of male students dumping the after class cleaning duties on male lead Wakana Gojo. Then Marin Kitagawa comes along to help him, and when she realizes the others took advantage of him, she tells him he shouldn't be an ExtremeDoormat and say no when he doesn't want to do something.

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

* In the ''Literature/DirtyBertie'' story "Fire!", Bertie is made to sweep up the schoolyard after putting out Mr Grouch(the janitor)'s bonfire, thinking the school to be on fire.

* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', every day between 3:30 and 4:00 pm is cleaning time, where everyone except the bullies, delinquents and the student council clean the school. It's the only time of the day Yandere-chan can carry cleaning supplies like a mop or bleach and not be considered suspicious.

** School bully Nelson is punished this way, and starts dating Lisa when she gets put in detention.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episode, "Sheepskin Deep", [[BackToSchool Baloo has to go back to elementary school]] so that he can finish it and attend a class reunion. When he cuts class to make his deliveries for Higher for Hire, Mrs. Morrisey gives him detention, and does the same to Kit for trying to cover for him. While in detention, the school principal, Mr. Pomeroy assigns them to clap erasers, which Baloo tries to speed up by strapping the erasers to the Sea Duck's propellers. This results in Mr. Pomeroy being covered in eraser dust and threatening to expel Baloo.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', 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.

* In most culinary schools, the last thing a class will do at the end of any particular term will be to clean their classroom-kitchen down to the bare steel and concrete, effectively sanitizing it for use by the next class. Every pot is scrubbed, every dish is washed, every scrap of food left in a refrigerator is dumped or (if still useable) stored, and so on.
* [[http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=830&catid=23&subcatid=150 This article]] has a section on school cleaning in Japan, which explains the reasons given for why schools in Japan use staff and students instead of having janitors or cleaners. Most "public" schools in Asia only employ janitorial staff for repairs, and use students for the daily cleaning.

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

* In Manga/MekkoRarekko it occurs in the middle of the second issue after Buchi can't find his school project.

Rivals forced into cleaning duty together may get the chance to find out that they're NotSoDifferent.

This trope can lead to characters being accidentally [[LockedInARoom locked in a storage closet]], especially if a potential love interest is helping out. AfterSchoolCleaningDuty can be especially troublesome for [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld students who double as super heroes]], as an ill-timed battle or a misuse of supernatural abilities can leave the area they were supposed to clean looking even worse the next day.

* ''Manga/AliceAcademy'': Mikan gets stuck with this job as a no-star.

* A SadistTeacher does this to the hero of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' in the very first episode/chapter. Turns out the teacher was a homunculus, and only assigned him to cleaning duty so he could [[ImAHumanitarian eat him]] and there would be no witnesses.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'': Mrs. Brinks always makes Angela clap erasers after school. Angela has gotten good at it.

* A SadistTeacher does this to the hero of ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' in the very first episode/chapter. Turns out the teacher was a homunculus, and only assigned him to cleaning duty so he could [[ImAHumanitarian eat him]] and there would be no witnesses.

* [[TheProtagonist Yugami]] and [[{{Narrator}} Chihiro]] get this as a one-week punishment in ''Manga/YugamiKunNiWaTomodachiGaInai'' for disrupting a class...while [[StandingInTheHall standing in the hall]] as an earlier punishment.

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* In ''FanFic/KyonBigDamnHero'' Kyon is shown doing this a few times.
* Sunset Shimmer is subjected to many months of this in ''FanFic/LongRoadToFriendship'' after she [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013 destroyed Canterlot High School]]. She gets off of cleaning duty a few times after she gets some CharacterDevelopment.

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* Team Kimba of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has gotten this punishment more than once at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]]. This can range from just working in the kitchens or with the ground crews up to the really nasty punishments like helping in the sewers (where there are monsters) or helping at Hawthorne dorm (where some very powerful students have no control over their powers).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson has been punished in this manner more than a few times.

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

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 have resigned themselves to staying behind, as it is their turn for After School Cleaning Duty. 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.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Alluded to occasionally on ''OurMissBrooks''. In "Spare That Rod!", while cleaning Mr. Conklin's office, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass find an old letter to Mr. Darwell, Mr. Conklin's predecessor as principal. They type Mr. Conklin's name on the ten-year-old envelope . . . HilarityEnsues.

* Sunset Shimmer is subjected to many months of this in ''FanFic/LongRoadToFriendship'' after she [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls destroyed Canterlot High School]]. She gets off of cleaning duty a few times after she gets some CharacterDevelopment.

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': ''Cabin Fever'', Greg and his friend Rowley try to set up an event at their school, but the green ink from the cardboard signs they put up runs in the rain and they take them off, but it stains the wall. This gets them in trouble with the teachers and even the police, who don't know who did it or why and think it's vandalism. A box to write anonymous letters gets put up and Rowley writes "me and Greg Heffley stained the wall", so Greg is made to bleach the stains off.

* One of the tasks the teacher has to inspire his class into doing in ''OsuTatakaeOuendan 2''. If you fail the segment, the class mocks him by taking his declaration to "make this classroom sparkle!" literally by hanging up a disco ball.

* 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.

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

* Mrs. Brinks always makes AngelaAnaconda clap erasers after school. Angela has gotten good at it.
* In WesternAnimation/WinxClub, 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.

* Takashi Yamazaki (the class president) told Syaoran to do this as a bit of light hazing in ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura''.

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'', Syaoran is given this task as a bit of light hazing by Yamazaki.