History Main / SchoolOfHardKnocks

* WhateleyUniverse has several variants of this. The Combat Final is required and students can take part in simulations or arena duels. Given the treatment of mutants in the setting learning how to fight is a very important real world skill.

* The Foremost World-Renowned International School of Lucha in ''MuchaLucha'', naturally, seeing as everyone in the show is a MaskedLuchador and the entire point of the school is to train their students in lucha libre. There's also a nearby rival school where students are taught American-style pro wrestling.

* Oddly enough, while mentioned, there is no such school seen in the TropeNamer, ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.

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* In Five Weapons, the titular assassin school has its students specialize in a weapon and permits students to challenge one another. [[AwesomeByAnalysis Shainline]] defies the school by choosing [[ActualPacifist no weapon]]. The [[MonsterKnight faculty]] highly disapproves and seeks to [[BreaktheHaughty correct]] his delinquency.

* ''My Schoolmate the Barbarian'' has a place where students brawl in an elaborate ringout fight.

* Eustace's school from the Chronicles of Narnia (appears most prominently in The Silver Chair)

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* The Tenchi Gakuen in ''Manga/HayateCrossBlade'' not only encourages fighting, actually all students are part of an in-school {{kendo}} championship with great monetary prizes for the winning [[BattleCouple teams]].

* While it isnt implemented, for obvious reasons, an episode of ''GravityFalls'' has Grunkle Stan running for mayor and when asked about his ideas for education, wanted a system where children are released on a deserted island to fight amongst themselves. You know, "to teach them about life". He also wanted schools to teach kids to swear.

** This is sadly a real life example. The boarding school, Solbacka, was closed down because of the violence that went on there. The fighting was not actually encouraged in order to solve disputes, but to maintain a hierarchy among the students. It was supposed to 'harden' the boys.

* ''{{Videogame/Bully}}.''

* The Foremost World-Renowned International School of Lucha in ''MuchaLucha'', naturally, seeing as everyone in the show is a MaskedLuchador.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'' makes this the entire premise of the show besides blatant [[FanService fanservice]].

-->-- '''Captain Edmund {{Blackadder}}'''

* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' had a high school founded by martial arts masters, and as a result even the teachers will fight against their pupils if things get too rowdy. Every year they host a huge battle royal in their school between all of their martial arts clubs.

School violence tends to not be accepted, but in a SchoolOfHardKnocks, students are not only ''allowed'' to settle their differences with their fists but actually ''encouraged'', complete with official rules. If these brawls get too out of hand, one can expect the faculty to step in themselves to kick some ass.

->''"I am a fully rounded human being, with a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from the kindergarten of [[PrecisionFStrike getting the shit kicked out of me]]."''

* Harry [[DresdenFiles Dresden]] sarcastically claims to have been through this ... [[CrossTheLineTwice as he's getting beaten up]].

** The Assassins' Guild School. It is first referenced in ''Discworld/{{Wyrd Sisters}}'' as a place which less fortunate scholars at the Fools' Guild School next door look at in helpless envy and longing. The Fools are tormented by the happy piping voices of young people at a school they love drifting over the dividing wall. However, as the Assassins value competitive examination, the number of happy piping voices grows considerably ''less'' towards the end of each term.

* ''{{Videogame/Bully}}.'' 'Nuff said.

* ''TenjhoTenge'' had a high school founded by martial arts masters, and as a result even the teachers will fight against their pupils if things get too rowdy. Every year they host a huge battle royal in their school between all of their martial arts clubs.
* Shibusen Acadamy in ''SoulEater'' specifically states that all fights between students on campus must be moderated by a member of the faculty.
* Various schools in ''IkkiTousen'' are in open war BecauseDestinySaysSo.
* ''RealBoutHighSchool''. School-sponsored K-Fights are used to solve every possible dispute, ''including "too many K-Fights"''. Eventually, it's made so that students don't even have to be on campus or fighting a schoolmate for it to be an official K-Fight, with play-by-play and color commentary from the principal himself.

* The school in ''{{Veritas}}'', is one such example. They even have an area just for fighting and training.
* The Tenchi Gakuen in ''HayateXBlade'' not only encourages fighting, actually all students are part of an in-school kendô championship with great monetary prizes for the winning [[BattleCouple teams]].
* One of the main plotlines in ''{{Aiki}}'' is students attending one School of Hard Knocks trying to become skilled enough to earn admission at a University of Hard Knocks when they graduate.

* ''{{Freezing}}''. Apparently the staff doesn't care if their students beat each other nearly to death or even sexually molest the losers. Unless it's the heroine doing the [[CurbStompBattle curb stomping]]. Oh, ''then'' they step in.
* Oh dear God, ''YakuzaGirl''. The school is divided in various Clans that spends their time killing each other, either with weapons or with supernatural powers, and a poor NaiveNewcomer gets trapped in that war to gain the love of a girl.
* ''MakenKi''. In fact, it's the entire premise of the show besides blatant [[FanService fanservice]].

* TheOffspring, "Come Out and Play".

* Oh dear God, ''YakuzaGirl''. The school is divided in various Clan that spends their time killing each other, either with weapons or with supernatural powers, and a poor NaiveNewcomer gets trapped in that war to gain the love of a girl.
* ''MakenKi''. Infact, it's the entire premise of the show besides blatant [[FanService fanservice]].

* In ''HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', students at Dudley's new school, Smeltings, are given "knobbly sticks used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life."

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** Hogwarts is not much better, what with the Beaters in Quidditch matches who are supposed to hit their opponents with heavy balls, and the (very short-lived) dueling club.
*** The Hogwarts dueling club was more analogous to a boxing, wrestling, fencing, or judo club in a regular school; what we saw of it involved rules, rituals, formalities, etc.

* Harry [[DresdenFiles Dresden]] sarcastically claims to have been through this ... as he's getting beaten up.