Television has periodically portrayed school as the ultimate evil, a frame for fluffy slice-of-life scenarios, or just as a mundane backdrop to supernatural phenomena. Pop culture is obsessed with telling school stories, from realistic dramas about the ways school can feel like a villains’ den to fantasies that stylize it as a battlefield. Sometimes school is a place where greater social ideas play out via grand metaphors. Sometimes it’s just the occupation that takes up young people’s time when they’d rather be doing something else much more exciting.
One way or another, on television, school is always dramatic. People feeling the anxiety or pressure of back-to-school season can take some comfort from the protagonists in these...
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