History Main / ArtisticLicenseEducation

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Most of the staff at South Park Elementary are extremely incompetent at their jobs, especially Mr. Garrison, who acts inappropriate in front of his students and is a {{jerkass}} on top of that. In one episode, sex ed was taught to the entire school, including ''Kindergartners''. The closest thing the school had to a competent, responsible adult was Chef, a womanizing {{Casanova}} whose advice often caused misunderstandings, but he was eventually KilledOffForReal. Things only get worse when Principal Victoria is replaced by [[PoliticalOvercorrectness PC Principal]], who yells at his students and is willing to ''[[WouldHurtAChild assault them]]'' just for using microaggressions.

** [=SpongeBob=] has caused a lot of destruction during his driver's tests, and yet he's still allowed to stay at the driving school, when in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go (even as she has gone so far as try to ''kill him'' because she has come to [[TeachersUnafavouriteStudent loathe him]] ''that'' much) is that she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].

** [=SpongeBob=] has caused a lot of destruction during his driver's tests, and yet he's still allowed to stay at the driving school, when in real life he would be kicked out after failing too many times. The only reason Mrs. Puff doesn't let him go is that she promised that she would never give up on any of her students, [[JustEatGilligan but it would probably make her life a lot easier if she did it just this once]].

* [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Suspended", where Clarence and Sumo get [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin suspended from school]]. Mr. Reese actually does try to call their parents to come get them, but he doesn't get an answer. Instead of keeping them until he can get ahold of their parents, he just sends them on their merry way. Of course, if he hadn't done that, then [[ForWantOfANail the two boys wouldn't have been there to save the school from an overheated boiler]].

** This is somewhat subverted later on, since the story explains that Aizawa ''required'' the authority to temporarily expel students at the beginning of the year in order to be hired at U.A., with his reasoning being the need for them to experience their "death" in order [[ScareEmStraight to show them how serious the profession is]]. Additionally, it's seen by the rest of the staff as something absurd at the absolute best, and it's also pointed out that, regardless of circumstances, the expulsions [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome still go]] into the students' [[ThePermanentRecord permanent records]] (which is a pretty SeriousBusiness in Japan. Definitely for the best that the revelation is PlayedForLaughs).

* ''Fanfic/{{Coyote}}'': As mentioned under the Anime & Manga folder, Aizawa's special dispensation to expel students under his own authority from Canon is highlighted further here (and in [[FandomSpecificPlot multiple similar fanfics]]), [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in a]] fashion of Principal Nedzu lamenting out loud "[[AccusationFic I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I allowed it]]".

** We have Shota "Eraser Head" Aizawa's infamous (especially InUniverse) act of expelling an entire class of U.A. on the very first day because he didn't think they would cut it as Heroes (because they didn't take the Quirk Apprehension Test that students take on that day as seriously as Aizawa wanted). While this demonstrates that he is a serious SinkOrSwimMentor,[[note]][[TheReveal we find out approximately a couple of hundred chapters later]] that Aizawa only expelled them for a few minutes and re-enrolled them [[ScareEmStraight once the message was finally understood]], and one of the students of that class (now in her second year in U.A.) even shows up to ''thank'' Aizawa for it.[[/note]] the fact still stands that Aizawa performed this action with no red tape getting in the way, and even by the current day of the story, the people in charge of administering U.A. still have not put anything in place to prevent him from doing it again.

** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Dolores Umbridge puts Harry in detention for entire evenings, and the higher-ups are okay with this, even though it means he has to stay up past midnight to complete his homework for other subjects. Even if she were just making him write regular lines (and not making him writes lines with a [[ColdBloodedTorture Blood Quill]]), this would still be considered disproportionate. Umbridge also tells Harry and the Weasley twins they will receive a ''lifetime ban'' from playing Quidditch after they get into a fight with Malfoy and his cronies after a match. While she might have the authority to have Harry and the Weasley twins removed from their school Quidditch team, banning someone from playing Quidditch for life would most likely be a matter for the Department of Magical Games and Sports, not a schoolteacher. Granted, the story states that Umbridge was a Ministry-appointed hire, so it's likely that Dumbledore and the others aren't in much of a position to put a stop to it.

* In ''Literature/CharlottesWeb,'' Avery brings a gun to school and nothing is ever said about it. While the book was written in and takes place in the 1950s, when there was much less hysteria over guns in schools, there should have at least been some concern about a ''ten-year-old'' bringing a weapon to school.

** Crocker's UltimateJobSecurity is the most obvious example. When he isn't ranting about fairies, he's intentionally causing his class to fail out of [[ItAmusedMe pure malice]]. In real life, if a teacher was handling so many Fs as Crocker does, he would very likely be fired due to his inability from teaching students to pass.

** Severus Snape shows blatant favoritism towards the Slytherin House by taking points from other houses get point deductions for flimsy reasons and either overlooking or not noticing Slytherin transgressions, and he treats Harry like crap because [[SinsOfOurFathers his father used to bully him]]. He also has a practical lesson on his first day of class, using materials that can and ''do'' result in student injury if handled improperly without first ensuring that the students know enough about proper lab technique to follow instructions safely, something that would get a real chemistry teacher sacked on the spot. Dumbledore is aware of this and never tries to reign Snape in because he values having a defected Death Eater more than having a competent teacher. In fact, none of the teachers seem to show any concern for classroom safety given all the ways spells can go wrong or magic creatures can hurt people.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the schoolwork done in Calvin's first-grade class ranges from basic addition to knowing where the Byzantine Empire was.

** This is somewhat subverted later on, since the story explains that Aizawa ''required'' the authority to temporarily expel students at the beginning of the year in order to be hired at U.A., with his reasoning being the need for them to experience their "death" in order to show them how serious the profession is. Additionally, it's seen by the rest of the staff as something absurd at the absolute best, and it's also pointed out that, regardless of circumstances, the expulsions [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome still go]] into the students' [[ThePermanentRecord permanent records]].

* ''Series/CobraKai'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/CobraKaiS1E5Counterbalance Counterbalance]]", Miguel beats up Kyler and his posse in the cafeteria and is dragged to the office where the counselor attempts to call his mother. However, Miguel's grandma, who doesn't speak English, answers the phone instead, and Miguel is implied to [[KarmaHoudini get away with the fight]] without his mother finding out and without a hint of some sort of punishment. In real life, Miguel would most likely be kept in the office until the school could get ahold of his mother, and he would ''certainly'' be getting suspended for fighting in school, as most schools have zero-tolerance policies and suspend everyone involved in a fight, regardless of who was actually fighting. It's odd because there's an aversion of this in the fallout to the West Valley Brawl of the season 2 finale, where everyone involved in that fight ''is'' suspended, while Tory and Robby are expelled (Tory for instigating the brawl by challenging Samantha to a fight and then injuring her, Robby for putting Miguel in the hospital with a spinal cord injury).
** Kyler's gang has been terrorizing the school way more than anyone would be permitted. Most real life schools would notice Kyler drawing a schlong on Demetri's cast in season 3, or (more insanely) how Kyler holds Demetri's arm up and calls everyone's attention to it.

* ''Fanfic/{{Coyote}}'': As mentioned under the Anime & Manga folder, Aizawa's special dispensation to expel students under his own authority from Canon is highlighted further here, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in a]] fashion of Principal Nedzu lamenting out loud "[[AccusationFic I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I allowed it]]".

* ''Fanfic/{{Coyote}}'': As mentioned under the Anime & Manga folder, Aizawa's special dispensation to expel students under his own authority from Canon is highlighted further here, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in an]] fashion of Principal Nedzu lamenting out loud "[[AccusationFic I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I allowed it]]" fashion.

** This is somewhat subverted later on, since the story explains that Aizawa ''required'' the authority to temporarily expel students at the beginning of the year in order to be hired at U.A., with his reasoning being the need for them to experience their "death" in order to show them how serious the profession is. Additionally, it's seen by the rest of the staff as something absurd at the absolute best, and it's also pointed out that, temporary or not, the expulsions [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome still go into the students' permanent records]].

* ''Fanfic/{{Coyote}}'': As mentioned under the Anime & Manga folder, Aizawa's special dispensation to expel students under his own authority from Canon is highlighted further here, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in an]] "[[AccusationFic I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I allowed it]]" fashion.

* One episode of ''Malcolm in the Middle'' shows Hal, Lois, and Dewey intercepting a letter containing a scholarship intended for Malcolm. Throughout the episode, the former three fight over how to spend the money on their own selfish desires, rather than passing it along for whom it was intended. In real life, scholarships aren't simply blank checks that colleges send prospective students by mail. They function like gift cards, in that they can only be spent at that institution and nowhere else. Most students who win scholarships don't even see the money in any physical form; rather, they receive a letter saying that they won the scholarship, and that amount is deducted from their per-semester tuition balance. But this episode treats Malcolm's scholarship offer as just as spendable as a briefcase full of cash.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The episode after "[[Recap/Stargirl2020S1E04Wildcat Wildcat]]" is a HalloweenEpisode. That would place "Wildcat's" ColdOpen of in July, a time when US schools aren't usually in session.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The episode after "[[Recap/Stargirl2020S1E04Wildcat Wildcat]]" is a HalloweenEpisode. That would place the ColdOpen of ''this'' episode in July, a time when US schools aren't usually in session.

* Schools following a system that does not match the setting/culture of the work. This is especially common with [[WeAllLiveInAmerica American-made works that take place in a non-American setting]]. Examples of this include having high school graduation ceremonies in a country that only does ceremonies for university or starting the academic school year in the wrong month (America starts in late August/early September, while other countries usually start earlier, such as in April or even January).

** A teacher who not only bullies students but encourages them to do it to others, a student with a ''0.0'' GPA being permitted to do athletic competitions, a club that seems to meet at all hours of the day, a Spanish teacher who isn't actually qualified on the subject (and has to go to night school to learn the subject he's supposed to be teaching), a female student being punished by the glee club coach for refusing to wear a clamshell bikini during a performance (it's important to note that she is 15 years old and has an eating disorder that the coach already knew about), a student in a wheelchair being allowed to play football by invoking LoopholeAbuse, a teacher becoming so close to his students that one of them is ''the best man at his wedding'',the student who brought [[AxesAtSchool a gun to school]] post-UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}, the list goes on.

** Crocker's UltimateJobSecurity is the most obvious example. When he isn't ranting about fairies, he's intentionally causing his class to fail out of [[ItAmusedMe pure malice]]. In real life, if a teacher was handling some many Fs as Crocker does, he would very likely be fired due to his inability from teaching students to pass.

** Crocker's UltimateJobSecurity is the most obvious example. When he isn't ranting about fairies, he's intentionally causing his class to fail out of [[ItAmusedMe pure malice]].

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the schoolwork done in Calvin's first-grade class ranges from basic addition to knowing where the Byzantine Empire was, the latter of which isn't even taught to ''high schoolers''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "[[Recap/DariaS5E06 Lucky Strike]]", when Ms. Li is hiring scab teachers to replace the ones on strike, she gets Daria to sub a class because she can't find anyone else. Not only does Daria not have the qualifications to be a teacher (you need at least a Bachelor's degree) and teaching a class her sister is in, but she's ''still attending the school''.

* Happens InUniverse in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''. Chloé often avoids punishment or foists it off on someone else by threatening to call her father, the Mayor and have him close the school, which Mr. Damocles believes she can do. However, as the Mayor himself points out in "Malediktator", he can’t actually close the school for more than a few days without grossly exceeding his power.