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{{quote|''"Don't believe everything you hear about our boarding schools ([[Beat]]) Don't ''dis-''believe everything you hear either." ''|'''[[Christopher Hitchens]]''', on ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]''}}
The misadventures of students at British public schools (boarding schools to American readers<ref>
Mostly, the boarding schools depicted were for the aspiring middle classes, so did not have particularly elaborate facilities. The biggest educational difference from other schools was the syllabus, which led to a few jokes about Latin, but the classrooms were typically much like any other, because that wasn't where the story was.
The story was in the fact that they were ''boarding'' schools; the children lived in the premises, sharing dorm rooms. The
Quite often, the school buildings would be in fairly bad shape - leaking roofs, faulty
Common elements in the
* Children/teenagers as the main protagonists.
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* ''[[Toy Soldiers]]'' takes place a boarding school full of kids who've been kicked out of other boarding schools. A ragtag group of misfits, if you will. And then the terrorists come...
* The ''[[St Trinian's]]'' series. This series is most notable for creating the "[[Sexy Schoolwoman|sexy female school uniform]]" trope. A new film recently came out. Too late for the EMP, then.
* The cult British film ''[[If....]]'' deconstructs this viciously. Most famous for launching [[Malcolm McDowell]].
* The ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie.
* John Dugian's ''[[Flirting]]'' is set in one of these, or rather a pair of them (one for each gender) set across a lake from each other.
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** His school only becomes a main part of the film towards the climax.
* ''[[The Emperors Club]]'' is about an American private school. This one's from the point of view of a teacher, the school is a good place, and it's all thoroughly in the tradition of molding boys into men, etc. There's still some of the "[[Inadequate Inheritor|overbearing rich parent]] [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|damages adolescent son]]" [[Do We Have This One?|trope]], but that's treated as more of a sad fact of life than an indictment of the whole system.
* ''[[Au
* ''[[The Hairy Bird]]'', a.k.a ''All I Wanna Do''
* ''[[Almost Angels]]'' takes place (and was filmed) in the [[Real Life]] [[Big Fancy House|Palais Augarten]], a former Imperial palace used by the Vienna Boys Choir as a boarding school.
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* ''[[Is That You Miss Blue]]'' by M.E. Kerr.
* ''[[Prep]]'' by Curtis Sittenfeld.
* ''[[Tom
* ''[[Stalky]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]: ''Stalky'' in "Land and Sea Tales" and then whole ''Stalky & Co'' book; with little sequels ''A Deal in Cotton'' (in "Actions and Reactions") and ''The Honours of War'' (in "A Diversity of Creatures"). Only both the school and protagonist are... rather unusual.
* Most of the first decade's worth of [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s books, including ''Mike'', which introduces the character ''[[Psmith]]''.
* ''[[Billy Bunter]]''
* ''[[Jennings]]''
* [[Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton's]] had three series centred around this, all of them pretty similar (although the ''Naughtiest Girl'' novels were unusually not set in a [[One-Gender School]]) - ''[[St. Clare's]]'', ''[[Malory Towers]]'' and ''[[The Naughtiest Girl]] in the School''. Most of her other series' protagonists - e.g. those of the ''[[Famous Five]]'' books - are mentioned as attending these as well.
* Likewise, nearly every one of the over fifty novels of Angela Brazil, who had pretty much the exact same content but for girls of one or two generations earlier. They were the original source of most of the tropes that came to be regarded as boarding school cliches in later years, and suffered badly from [[Seinfield Is Unfunny]] as a result.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' is set in one of these.
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* The ''[[Bruno and Boots]]'' book series by [[Gordon Korman]], set at Macdonald Hall, which is near the fictional town of Chutney, Ontario, a relatively short distance from Toronto. Also featured in the series is Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies.
* The story of Rachel Klein's novel ''[[The Moth Diaries]]'' unfolds in a boarding school.
* ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]''
* The [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Cain's Last Stand'' features the titular now-retired commissar as a teacher at a Schola Progenium, a sort of state-run boarding school for orphans specifically devoted to educating future members of the Ecclesiarchy and the Commissariat. This being the [[Warhammer
* Coates Academy in the [[Gone (novel)]] series is a boarding school specifically for "difficult" kids.
* Mordantly documented by [[Molesworth|Nigel Molesworth]] (with [[St Trinian's|Ronald Searle]] doing the illustrations) in ''Down with Skool!'' and its sequels.
* Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women in ''[[The Gallagher Girls|I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You]]''.
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== Video Games ==
* Main setting of ''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al
* Main setting of ''[[Luminous Arc 3]]'', although the students are only shown in class twice and even then they're barely learning.
* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' plays with a lot of these tropes, though the game is set in New England. Some of the Preppies even affect upper-class English accents to
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', Gekkoukan High seems to have both day students and student dorms. However, the main characters live in a boarding house some distance away from the actual campus.
* ''[[Nancy Drew|Warnings at Waverly Academy]]''.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Except so far Houses seems not compete, but give a measure of separation keeping some minimal sanity and safety for everyone involved, given that the students evidently include borderline [[Mad Scientist
* Early chapters of [[Drowtales]].
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