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** Mallory, although this was actually HER decision.


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** Mallory ''decides'' of her own volition to go to boarding school (and puts in the work to make it happen) after she becomes a bullying target at her local school.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Alex gets Schooled," Alex's parents send her to a boarding school in England after she gets all Fs on her report card. Said school is run by a psychotic headmaster who tries to turn all his students, including Alex, into mutated dolphin people. Luckily, Sam and Clover come to the rescue and stop the headmaster with his evil plan. At the end of the episode, Alex's parents let her stay in Beverly Hills when it turns out there was a mix-up at school and all those Fs weren't Alex's; they were Mandy's.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Alex gets Schooled," Alex's parents send her to a boarding school in England after she gets all Fs on her report card. Said school is run by a psychotic headmaster who tries to turn all his students, including Alex, into mutated dolphin people. Luckily, Sam and Clover come to the rescue and stop the headmaster with and his evil plan. At the end of the episode, Alex's parents let her stay in Beverly Hills when it turns out there was a mix-up at school and all those Fs weren't Alex's; they were Mandy's.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Alex gets Schooled," Alex's parents send her to a boarding school in England after she gets all Fs on her report card. Said school is run by a psychotic headmaster who tries to turn all his students, including Alex, into mutated dolphin people. Luckily, Sam and Clover come to the rescue and stop the headmaster with his evil plan. At the end of the episode, Alex's parents let her stay in Beverly Hills when it turns out there was a mix-up at school and all those Fs weren't Alex's; they were Mandy's.
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* Almost happened to ''Toys/PollyPocket'' in ''[[WesternAnimation/PollyWorld]]''. Ironically, it wasn't Polly who stopped her would-be [[WickedStepmother Stepmother]]. What saved Polly was an AccidentalPublicConfession.

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* Almost happened to ''Toys/PollyPocket'' in ''[[WesternAnimation/PollyWorld]]''.''WesternAnimation/PollyWorld''. Ironically, it wasn't Polly who stopped her would-be [[WickedStepmother Stepmother]]. What saved Polly was an AccidentalPublicConfession.

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* This almost happened to Remy Remington in the ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Remy Rescue".



* Almost happened to ''Toys/PollyPocket'' in "Pollyworld''. Ironically, it wasn't Polly who stopped her would-be [[WickedStepmother Stepmother]]. What saved Polly was an AccidentalPublicConfession.

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* Almost happened to ''Toys/PollyPocket'' in "Pollyworld''.''[[WesternAnimation/PollyWorld]]''. Ironically, it wasn't Polly who stopped her would-be [[WickedStepmother Stepmother]]. What saved Polly was an AccidentalPublicConfession.

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* The black & white (1935, 1951) versions of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Ghost of Christmas Past).

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* The black & white (1935, 1951) In most film versions of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Ghost ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', as in the book, the Ghost of Christmas Past).Past shows Scrooge a vision of his younger self alone at boarding school while the other boys have gone home for Christmas. Some versions, like ''Film/Scrooge1951'' and ''Film/AChristmasCarol1984'', even [[AdaptationExpansion give more explanation than the book does]] for why Scrooge's father doesn't want him at home: usually that his mother [[DeathByChildbirth died when he was born]] and his father [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild still blames him for it.]]



* Several books by Creator/CharlesDickens feature this trope:
** In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', the title character is sent off to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors after he bites his [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Edward Murdstone [[TheDogBitesBack as reply to his abusive behavior.]] [[spoiler: He only can get out of it when his mother Clara and his half-brother die of illness.]]
** Pretty much the whole point of Dotheboys Hall in ''Literature/NicholasNickleby''.
** In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', the sequence with the Ghost of Christmas Past reveals that Scrooge spent most of his childhood in a dreary, run-down boarding school, even staying there alone with the schoolmaster when the other boys went home for the holidays. It's implied that this was due to his father's harsh character.



* Pretty much the whole point of Dotheboys Hall in ''Literature/NicholasNickleby''.



* In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', the title character is sent off to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors after he bites his [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Edward Murdstone [[TheDogBitesBack as reply to his abusive behavior.]] [[spoiler: He only can get out of it when his mother Clara and his half-brother die of illness.]]
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* ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 Lupin III (Part 5)]]'' has a non-villainous example. Lupin sends child prodigy hacker Ami to a French boarding school because he wants her to experience a normal childhood (while also keeping her safe from any dangers that come with his "job" as a master thief).

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-->-- '''Clarice Kensington''', ''It Takes Two'' (the Olsen twins' take on ''Film/TheParentTrap'')

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* Pretty much every version of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and black & white (1935, 1951) versions of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Ghost of Christmas Past).

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* Pretty much every version of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' In ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' and ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'', the father's new fiancée plots to have his daughter sent away to boarding school after they're married.
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* ''Fanfic/RealityChecksNyxverse'': Discussed and averted in ''Alicornundrum'', where Nyx is afraid that the nobles will try to force a newly ascended Twilight into sending Nyx off to boarding school. When Lord Blueblood tries to force Twilight into marrying his son Prince Blueblood, it turns out boarding school is ''exactly'' what he intends for Nyx, thus getting her out of the way so his own son can sire a "legitimate heir" with Twilight. Twilight is having none of it, however, and Celestia firmly supports her in the matter.
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* Suggested in ''[[Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles Searching for Dragons]]'' when Cimorene comes across a would-be EvilUncle. He's in the Wicked Stepmothers' Society (Male Auxiliary) but has been commanded by them to do something "evil" or lose his membership. He joined the society before he actually got to know his nephew, and is at a loss for what to do, since the nephew wants to be an adventurer and thinks the uncle's attempts to get him lost in the forest are just great fun. Cimorene's solution? OffToBoardingSchool! The kid will hate it, but it won't actually harm him, so the uncle can appease both the society and his conscience.

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* Suggested in ''[[Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles Searching for Dragons]]'' when Cimorene comes and Mendanbar come across a would-be EvilUncle. He's in the Wicked Stepmothers' Society (Male Auxiliary) but has been commanded by them to do something "evil" or lose his membership. He joined the society before he actually got to know his nephew, and is at a loss for what to do, since the nephew wants to be an adventurer and thinks the uncle's attempts to get him lost in the forest are just great fun. Cimorene's Mendanbar's solution? OffToBoardingSchool! The kid will hate it, but it won't actually harm him, so the uncle can appease both the society and his conscience.
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* ''{{Archer}}'' reveals that the main character spent the majority of his childhood and teenage years bounced around different boarding schools (where he was either ostracized or relentlessly bullied) because his mother couldnt be bothered to raise him, being more concerned with her career as a spy, her love life and her ''dog''! To no one's surprise, Archer has a ''lot'' of issues stemming from his crappy youth, which is part of the reason for why he's such a womanizing jerkass.

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* ''{{Archer}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' reveals that the main character spent the majority of his childhood and teenage years bounced around different boarding schools (where he was either ostracized or relentlessly bullied) because his mother couldnt be bothered to raise him, being more concerned with her career as a spy, her love life and her ''dog''! To no one's surprise, Archer has a ''lot'' of issues stemming from his crappy youth, which is part of the reason for why he's such a womanizing jerkass.
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* In the ''Utsutsukowashi-hen'' arc of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', Shion is sent off to a boarding school to keep her out of family business. Also, [[spoiler: being a twin, she was supposed to have been killed at birth, so her existence is a secret in her hometown]].

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* In the ''Utsutsukowashi-hen'' arc of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', Shion is sent off to a boarding school to keep her out of family business. Also, [[spoiler: being a twin, she (or [[TwinSwitch actually Mion]]) was supposed to have been killed at birth, so her existence is a secret in her hometown]].



* ''Film/TheChildrensHour'' has a bully of a girl in one of them spreading nasty rumors about two of its female teachers after being punished.

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* ''Film/TheChildrensHour'' ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' has a bully of a girl in one of them spreading nasty rumors about two of its female teachers after being punished.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': For one of the arcs during Creator/ChuckDixon's run Tim gets sent to Brentwood Academy by his dad who is worried about him being a rebellious and secretive teenager.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': For one of the arcs during Creator/ChuckDixon's run run, Tim gets sent to Brentwood Academy by his dad dad, who is worried about him being a rebellious and secretive teenager.



* ''Film/ThreeMenAndALittleLady'' has the musician fiance of the little lady's, Mary, mother plotting to send Mary to one
* In TheMovie of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Alec Baldwin wants to marry Kelly Preston and send her son off to military school (same dif). Unfortunately, his evil scheme was foiled by Mike Myers, making Baldwin go to military school alone while getting Kelly Preston to place a military school flyer on his sticky, purple goo filled body, thus ending the film with Fanning, Preston and Breslin (all 3) jumping on a couch as Myers sets off on his own (with Thing 1 and Thing 2).

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* ''Film/ThreeMenAndALittleLady'' has the musician fiance of the little lady's, Mary, lady Mary's mother plotting to send Mary to one
* In TheMovie of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Alec Baldwin wants to marry Kelly Preston and send her son off to military school (same dif). Unfortunately, his evil scheme was is foiled by Mike Myers, making Baldwin go to military school alone while getting Kelly Preston to place a military school flyer on his sticky, purple goo filled body, thus ending the film with Fanning, Preston Preston, and Breslin (all 3) jumping on a couch as Myers sets off on his own (with Thing 1 and Thing 2).



* In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', the title character is sent off to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors after her bites his [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Edward Murdstone [[TheDogBitesBack as reply to his abusive behavior.]] [[spoiler: He only can get out of it when his mother Clara and his half-brother die of illness.]]

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* In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', the title character is sent off to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors after her he bites his [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Edward Murdstone [[TheDogBitesBack as reply to his abusive behavior.]] [[spoiler: He only can get out of it when his mother Clara and his half-brother die of illness.]]



* In the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book ''Nowhere To Run'', secondary character Emily Mayer is constantly being bullied and terrorized by her stepmother Karen, who constantly changes the house rules so that Emily always seems to be in violation of them, tells her father outright lies about her, or at the very least, spins things to make Emily seem to be in the wrong. It's soon revealed that one of the things Karen frequently hints at is sending the supposed troublemaking Emily to a boarding school both so that she can be reformed and so that she won't be a bad influence on her baby sister.

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* In the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book ''Nowhere To Run'', secondary character Emily Mayer is constantly being bullied and terrorized by her stepmother Karen, who constantly changes the house rules so that Emily always seems to be in violation of them, tells her father outright lies about her, or at the very least, spins things to make Emily seem to be in the wrong. It's soon revealed that one of the things Karen frequently hints at is sending the supposed supposedly troublemaking Emily to a boarding school both so that she can be reformed and so that she won't be a bad influence on her baby sister.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': For one of the arcs during Creator/ChuckDixon's run Tim gets sent to Brentwood Academy by his dad who is worried about him being a rebellious and secretive teenager.

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* ''Film/IronMan'': Tony Stark says that the happiest day of his father's life was when he shipped him off to boarding school.

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** ''Film/AntMan'': Part of the estrangement between Hank and Hope comes from the fact he sent her to a boarding school after her mother died.



* ''Film/AntMan'': Part of the estrangement between Hank and Hope comes from the fact he sent her to a boarding school after her mother died.
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* Ted 'Theodore' Logan, in ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', has a strict father who doesn't approve of his rock-star dreams and plans to send him off to "Oates Military Academy" if he doesn't get an A on his history final. Avoiding such a heinous and un-triumphant fate is what causes said excellent adventure in the first place.
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-->-- '''Clarice Kensington''', ''It Takes Two'' (the Olsen twins' take on ''TheParentTrap'')

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* Also happens in "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E58TilNephewsDoUsPart Till Nephews Do Us Part]]" from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', where a RichBitch has set her eyes on Uncle Scrooge. She plans to send Huey, Dewey and Louie to military school and Webigail to finishing school ("I don't want to be finished!") [[spoiler:Fortunately, his old love from the Klondike shows up and spoils the plan]].

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* Also happens in "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E58TilNephewsDoUsPart Till Nephews Do Us Part]]" from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', where a RichBitch has set her eyes on Uncle Scrooge. She plans to send Huey, Dewey and Louie to military school and Webigail to finishing school ("I don't want to be finished!") [[spoiler:Fortunately, his old love from the Klondike shows up and spoils the plan]].
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* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', the protagonist is a troublemaker who is dropped off in an amazingly shitty boarding school by his neglectful mother so she wouldn't have to deal with him personally.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' Gloria's backstory involved being sent to a cruel acting school as a girl through the machinations of her mother's boyfriend, who prevented any letters from her mother sent to her.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' Gloria's backstory involved being sent to a cruel acting school as a girl through the machinations of her mother's boyfriend, who prevented any letters from her mother sent to her. To be fair, she did become a fantastic actress because of the schools training, with fame and riches that far outshone her StageMom. Unfortunately, it's also the underlying reason for her mental breakdown, which kicks in after [[spoiler: her mother commits suicide]]


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* ''Film/AntMan'': Part of the estrangement between Hank and Hope comes from the fact he sent her to a boarding school after her mother died.
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* Inverted spectacularly in ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''. Single mother Charlotte Haze plans to send her daughter Dolores (a.k.a. Lolita) off to summer camp and then to boarding school in order to get her out of her hair so she can enjoy the attentions of her AffablyEvil paramour, Humbert Humbert. Unfortunately, getting rid of Lolita is the [[{{Lolicon}} last thing that Humbert wants]]. Lolita, on the other hand, has no clue that Humbert secretly holds her mother in contempt and in fact seems to harbor a schoolgirl crush on him ([[UnreliableNarrator according to Humbert, anyway]]). The marriage [[spoiler: goes off without a hitch, [[MurderTheHypotenuse Charlotte gets conveniently killed by a car]], and Humbert is free to happily molest his step-daughter]].

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* Inverted spectacularly in ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''. Single mother Charlotte Haze plans to send her daughter Dolores (a.k.a. Lolita) off to summer camp and then to boarding school in order to get her out of her hair so she can enjoy the attentions of her AffablyEvil paramour, Humbert Humbert. Unfortunately, getting rid of Lolita is the [[{{Lolicon}} last thing that Humbert wants]].wants. Lolita, on the other hand, has no clue that Humbert secretly holds her mother in contempt and in fact seems to harbor a schoolgirl crush on him ([[UnreliableNarrator according to Humbert, anyway]]). The marriage [[spoiler: goes off without a hitch, [[MurderTheHypotenuse Charlotte gets conveniently killed by a car]], and Humbert is free to happily molest his step-daughter]].
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* Pretty much every version of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and black & white (1935, 1951) versions of ''Film/AChristmasCarol'' (Ghost of Christmas Past).

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* Subverted in ''Literature/DieAlchimistin''. When Aura is told she's sent to a boarding school, she thinks it was her mother's doing, probably at the insistence of the latter's lover. However, it turns out that it was the father [[DaddysGirl whom she trusted and thought her friend and confidant]] who planned it, and [[spoiler:his goal was to preserve her virginity so that he would be able to get a child with her later]].
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* ''Film/FireWithFire''(1986): had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her into a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.

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* ''Film/FireWithFire'':(1986) had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her into a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Charles Rowland is sent off to boarding school because his single-parent dad works for the British foreign service. At one point, having died of injuries sustained at the hands of undead bullies, he wonders if his being sent to boarding school was just a way for his dad to avoid actually having to be a parent.



* ''ProblemChild 2'': "Whether you like it or not, I am going to marry your daddy. And when I do, you will be on the first plane to boarding school -- in Baghdad!"
* ''FireWithFire'':(1986) had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her into a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.

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* ''ProblemChild ''Film/ProblemChild 2'': "Whether you like it or not, I am going to marry your daddy. And when I do, you will be on the first plane to boarding school -- - in Baghdad!"
* ''FireWithFire'':(1986) ''Film/FireWithFire'':(1986) had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her into a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.



* In TheMovie of ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'', Alec Baldwin wants to marry Kelly Preston and send her son off to military school (same dif). Unfortunately, his evil scheme was foiled by Mike Myers, making Baldwin go to military school alone while getting Kelly Preston to place a military school flyer on his sticky, purple goo filled body, thus ending the film with Fanning, Preston and Breslin (all 3) jumping on a couch as Myers sets off on his own (with Thing 1 and Thing 2).

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* In TheMovie of ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'', ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Alec Baldwin wants to marry Kelly Preston and send her son off to military school (same dif). Unfortunately, his evil scheme was foiled by Mike Myers, making Baldwin go to military school alone while getting Kelly Preston to place a military school flyer on his sticky, purple goo filled body, thus ending the film with Fanning, Preston and Breslin (all 3) jumping on a couch as Myers sets off on his own (with Thing 1 and Thing 2).


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* In ''Literature/TheThiefLord'', Prosper and Bo ran off to Venice after Prosper got wind of his aunt Esther's plans to send him off to boarding school. [[spoiler:At the end, this is the fate of the de-aged Barbarossa; Esther adopts him, but eventually discovers that he's been stealing from her and sends him off to boarding school.]]
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* Quinn Hodes of ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' gets shipped off to ''Casa Reforma'', a boarding school in Mexico, by her mother after she uses a nannycam to tape her father and Celia's husband having sex with a tennis pro. Quinn is not very happy with her for having done this -- in fact [[spoiler:she takes her mother hostage in Season 4 and tries to have her organs sold off, only to find out she can't do this as Celia has had chemotherapy]].
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* ''FireWithFire'':(1986) had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her to a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.
* ''Film/ThreeMenAndALittleLady'' has the musician fiance of the little lady's, Mary, mother plotting to send her to one

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* ''FireWithFire'':(1986) had the leading lady at a convent one with parents plotting to force her to into a Swiss finishing one after her graduation from the convent's high school.
* ''Film/ThreeMenAndALittleLady'' has the musician fiance of the little lady's, Mary, mother plotting to send her Mary to one
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* ''Film/TheChildren'sHour'' has a bully of a girl in one of them spreading nasty rumors about two of its female teachers after being punished.

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* ''Film/TheChildren'sHour'' ''Film/TheChildrensHour'' has a bully of a girl in one of them spreading nasty rumors about two of its female teachers after being punished.

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