History Main / InnerCitySchool

* In the SeriesFinale of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[spoiler:a full grown Nagisa starts his teaching career in a class filled with hostile delinquents who try to intimidate. But by using the same teaching methods as Koro-sensei, he's able to get the boys to settle down and respect him. The implication being that [[HistoryRepeats Nagisa is going to set them straight just like his late teacher would]]]].
* In "[[Anime/{{Bucchigiri}} Bucchigiri?!]], one of the main locations is Ichizu High where a majority of the student body is made of delinquents, banchos and street thugs who spend their time doing what they want without caring for their academics. Along with being covered in graffiti and damages, the first episode makes it clear that the teacher has no real authority and is simply ignored by his students.

* ''Series/AbbottElementary'' takes place in one in inner city Philadelphia. It’s in an old and broken down building, teacher turnover is ''massive'' and it’s all but abandoned by the city and school district. But it also has dedicated teachers and kids willing to learn.

TruthInTelevision, especially in the U.S., where schools in poor neighborhoods struggle since they are funded by local property taxes. Well-off American families have flocked to well-off American suburbs since the mid-20th century, often for the purposes of accessing "better" schools, exacerbating the funding problem (there's a deeper context to this phenomenon regarding U.S. history with racial segregation, but don't expect most works to deal too directly with that). Inverted in many parts of Europe, where the well-to-do tend to live in the inner cities. Latin American public schools are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". In the UK there may be ome overlap with TheGoodOldBritishComp, although that's not usually portrayed quite so negatively.

TruthInTelevision, especially in the U.S., where schools in poor neighborhoods struggle since they are funded by local property taxes. Well-off American families have flocked to well-off American suburbs since the mid-20th century, often for the purposes of accessing "better" schools, exacerbating the funding problem (there's a deeper context to this phenomenon regarding U.S. history with racial segregation, but don't expect most works to deal too directly with that). Inverted in many parts of Europe, where the well-to-do tend to live in the inner cities. Latin American public schools are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". In the UK there mayt be ome overlap with TheGoodOldBritishComp, although that's not usually portrayed quite so negatively.

TruthInTelevision, especially in the U.S., where schools in poor neighborhoods struggle since they are funded by local property taxes. Well-off American families have flocked to well-off American suburbs since the mid-20th century, often for the purposes of accessing "better" schools, exacerbating the funding problem (there's a deeper context to this phenomenon regarding U.S. history with racial segregation, but don't expect most works to deal too directly with that). Inverted in many parts of Europe, where the well-to-do tend to live in the inner cities. Latin American public schools are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales".

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' universe, the Thieves' Guild School is this, especially when used as a counterpoint to the upmarket and patrician Assassins' Guild school. If the AG School corresponds to an upscale British public boarding school, then the TG School is the downmarket inner city comprehensive ''Series/GrangeHill''. See ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6093110/1/Clowning-is-a-Serious-Business Clowning is a Serious business,]]'' which has a sub-theme of Education in Ankh-Morpork.
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* The Thieves' Guild School in the Literature/{{Discworld}} is definitively inner-city in all respects: located in one of the more downmarket districts of the city of Ankh-Morpork and serving as a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Expy]] of TheGoodOldBritishComp.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim Drake transfers to a deplorable school in Bludhaven the week after his old school was shot up and closed down in a gang war (during which a friend of his died in his arms), his girlfriend was murdered in the same gang war, and his father was murdered by Captain Boomerang. He is understandably furious when some of the other students approach him with questions about the shootings at his previous school and arranges things so that he can drop out before a week is up.

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* In the LooselyBasedOnATrueStory movie ''Film/FreedomWriters'', the main character tries to change the school she works at from this.

Schools based on those in RealLife, where the poorer students go, [[SuckySchool not to learn]], but to cut class, steal what isn't nailed down, vandalize what is, get it on in the restrooms, and do drugs all the time. Most of the teachers have [[ApatheticTeacher all just given up on doing any actual teaching]].

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.

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.

TruthInTelevision to Latin American public schools which are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. No matter where you go, many public schools will fit this trope to a tee. Sometimes there are (often haphazardly worn) school uniforms thrown into the mix. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". Also true in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor. Higher-income parents tend to live in the {{suburbia}} outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

Inverted in many parts of Europe, where the well-to-do tend to live in the inner cities.

* This trope was rather acidly parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s this]] ''Series/MadTV'' sketch making fun of SaveOurStudents films. In it, a [[WhiteMansBurden Nice White Lady]] inspires an inner-city school of troubled minority students.

* In the WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain episode "Dangerous Brains" in order to fund his latest TakeOverTheWorld plan, Brain gets a job as a teacher at one of these schools.