History Main / SuckySchool

* Greendale Community College of ''{{Community}}''

* The school in ''CaptainUnderpants''. The school library is shown as being almost completely free of books, with a librarian who discourages readings. The school also has signs posted [[AssimilationAcademy encouraging mindless conformity]].

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best. It may or may not be an InnerCitySchool or an AssimilationAcademy. The school is often full of [[SadistTeacher ridiculously mean teachers]] and run by an [[DeanBitterman even worse principal]].

* TruthInTelevision: American public schools were originally created primarily to educate factory workers, not "men of letters". After public education became mostly available, schools were still somewhat bad as the teachers were more focused on "lickin' instead o' larnin", licking meaning paddling.

See also InnerCitySchool.

* TruthInTelevision: American public schools were originally created primarily to educate factory workers, not "men of letters". After public education became mostly available, schools were still somewhat bad as the teachers were more focused on "Lickin' instead o' larnin", licking meaning paddling.

* This was enforced in the American South before [[CivilRightsMovement schools were integrated]]. While the "separate but equal" doctrine meant that, in theory, schools for white and black students had to be treated the same way, in practice the black schools had the worst of everything -- at best, they got the stuff left over from the white schools. It was this abuse that led to the desegregation of the public school system.

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best. It may or may not be an InnerCitySchool or an AssimilationAcademy. The school is often full of [[SadistTeacher ridiculously mean teachers]] and run by an [[DeanBitterman worst principal]].

* TruthInTelevision: American public schools were originally created primarily to educate factory workers, not "men of letters".

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best. It may or may not be an InnerCitySchool or an AssimilationAcademy.

* In ''TheFaculty'', there is a scene early on that takes place at a faculty meeting, where they are deciding how to divide the school's budget. Much to the teachers' chagrin, money that could be used for buying new textbooks or putting on a SchoolPlay other than the one they did last year is instead directed towards the football team, because, as [[BebeNeuwirth Principal Drake]] explains, [[SeriousBusiness they live in a football town]].

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best. It may or may not be an InnerCitySchool.

* The school in ''CaptainUnderpants''. The school library is shown as being almost completely free of books, with a librarian who discourages readings. The school also has signs posted encouraging mindless conformity.

* Tom Landry Middle School in ''KingOfTheHill'' shows budget and policy issues that reflects real life public school system. Examples include a shop class converted into a study room when the school couldn't afford a substitute teacher or equipment and newly published Texas history textbooks that tells nothing about the history of Texas.

* Truth In Television: U.S. government schools were created primarily to educate factory workers, not "men of letters".

* This was enforced in the American South before schools were integrated. Black schools often had the worst of everything, or maybe even the left over stuff from the white schools.

* Hogwarts in HarryPotter. Half the faculty are incompetent.

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and/or PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best.

The opposite of ElaborateUniversityHigh, a school that isn't very good at teaching because of budget issues and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Expect the textbooks to be massively out of date and have [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Cold War era information]] at best.

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* The school in ''CaptainUnderpants''. The school library is shown as being almost completely free of books, with a librarian who discourages readings. The school also has signs posted encouraging mindless conformity.

* ''LesChoristes'' centres on a failed musician, who accepts a job at a school whose name translates to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Rock Bottom']]. It gets better, though- at least until [[spoiler:the school burns down]].

* Kat from ''SequentialArt'' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=240 was]] in one, [[MortonsFork Catch 22]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=245 included]].

* Tom Landry Middle School in ''KingOfTheHill'' shows budget and policy issues that reflects the real life government school system. Examples include a shop class converted into a study room when the school couldn't afford a substitute teacher or equipment and newly published Texas history textbooks that tells nothing about the history of Texas.