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*** It's implied that she wanted him to study so that he can "avenge" his father, who was fired from his job after [[Taking the Heat]] for his boss. However, when he called her out on this, she was apparently willing to allow him to live as he wanted. His mother apparently has no such standards for Akito's older brother, who is fooling around in college around the start of the series.

** Mashiro's mother also follows this in the early parts of the series; she's the only one in the household who doesn't approve of Mashiro's goals to be a manga writer and constantly encourages him to study instead. When she notices him playing video games instead of studying, she angrily tells him he won't even get into Minami high if he continues at that rate.

* One of the stand-alone stories in Mitsukazu Mihara's ''IC in a Doll'' had a woman who would give her son a timed math-test every morning and yell at him when he cried or was ''two seconds'' slower than her friends' children. {{spoiler|It turns out this is out of stress; partly because she thinks her husband is cheating on her (actually, no. He's a crossdresser and the lipstick stains and perfume on his clothes is from ''him'') and partly because she has a bit of an inferiority complex.}} It [[It Got Worse|didn't end well.]]

* Taichi's mother in [[Chihayafuru]], but extends to any competition (just look at all the trophies and certificates in that one room of his house!). Ever since Taichi was little, his mother always wanted him to be the best at everything he did, so much she would chastise him harshly for not getting first place. Chihaya personally calls her "Mrs. Pressure" because of all the stress Taichi gets from living up to his mother's expectations.

* ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'': The reluctant superheroine Arrowette had this problem with her mother, who was once the ''original'' Arrowette.

* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Laurie "Silk Spectre II" Juspeczyk had this problem with her mother, the original Silk Spectre.

 

== Film ==

* Widow Kang from ''[[Years of Rice and Salt]]'' mercilessly drills her youngest son in the Confucian classics, in order to make a proper scholar out of him.

* ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'': Katie Nolan is told by her immigrant mother that education is the key to rising in America, and to that end, she should make her kids stay in school longer than she did and read them a page a day from the Bible and the collected works of Shakespeare. How well this is or isn't working is a constant source of worry for her.

 

 

* Implied in an episode of ''[[The Littles]]'' with an "education papa". When the episode begins, he threatens to send his daughter to a private school "where [her] friends won't be such a bad influence on [her]", unless she gets straight A's on her report card, resulting in her running away from home.

* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', one episode had a Valedictorian student whose mother was like this. He had the second-best score on a school-wide test, falling short of Max, and his mother considered it terrible. The show, however, demonstrates why this attitude was bad; her strict upbringing drove him to become a member of the Jokerz just to have some freedom.

{{quote|"Dad, it's just one point."

"One point away from a perfect score!" }}

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