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Cram School
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In many countries, admittance into university is based on a long, difficult, often very competitive set of exams taken at the end of one's final year of public school. A cram school is a special organization, generally privately-run, whose entire, unashamed purpose is to help pupils pass these exams. To that end, the curriculum is almost entirely answering questions from past exams and fine-tuning answering strategies. Cram school is generally attended in addition to regular school, but some offer full-time education. The role of these schools is a matter of controversy. Many teachers oppose them on the basis that they undermine the work and dedication of regular teachers. Their opponents argue that if teachers were doing as good a job as they should be, there would be no need for cram schools. Some say that expensive cram schools unfairly benefit children of the rich in what's supposed to be an evaluation of skill; others retort that the same could be said of any tutor and that parents have the right to invest in their kids. Cram schools can also be dangerous to students' health, as they risk overwork and classes are often very early in the morning or late at night to fit around the regular school schedule. Also, if cram schools become prevalent enough, they can create a "Red Queen's race" situation, where none of the crammers actually receive an advantage because everyone else does the same thing. The prevalence of cram schools varies around the world, but they're most prominent in East Asia, where the Education Mama is a common phenomenon and university entrance exams are so important that they can basically make or break a teen's future. As such, it's a common Anime trope — a particular twist is for the smart kid to go to cram school despite not needing it or still being in grade school, just because they enjoy it. See Summer School Sucks for the broad Western equivalent, but the schools in that trope are more "boring and embarrassing" than "stressful and perhaps a social norm". |
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A school of this type was the subject of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Hothouse" episode. The school in question was for gifted children, but the teachers and administrators cared more about symbols of success than the students' well-being; no matter how well the students were doing, there was constant pressure on them to do more and be better, and they were made to feel ashamed and like they were failures if they didn't jump through every hoop and then some. Olivia learns that many students are on prescription stimulants so they could focus better and sleep less, and that this was something the school encouraged from behind the scenes. | |
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ERASED: Aya Nakanishi, one of the 1988 victims, attended an evening cram school on top of her existing private school and piano lessons, isolating her from her peers and making her an easy target for the killer. Saving her, Satoru deduces, involves diverting her from her usual routine so the killer doesn't have an opportunity to kidnap her on her nighttime walk back home. | |
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In Blue Exorcist, much of the main cast goes to a "cram school" for exorcists entirely separate from their regular high school. It has to call itself a "cram school" to keep up the Masquerade. | |
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Dombey and Son provides the Ur-Example with a cram school doubling as a Boarding School of Horrors. It's so intense, the Head Boy turns feeble-minded from too much cramming, and Paul Dombey is implied to have gone to an early grave thanks to academic overwork (although it could also have just been natural causes). | |
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The first episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha depicts Nanoha and her friends Alyssa and Suzuka attending cram school after their normal classes, even though they're in third grade. They spend part of their time there discussing who should take care of the ferret they found. | |
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The Harry Potter books often refer to the OWL and NEWT exams that Wizarding School students must take in their fifth and seventh years, respectively. Many future career opportunities are explicitly open only to those with certain NEWT scores. In Order of the Phoenix, we see that although there aren't any formal cram schools, the students are basically making their own, with one student bragging that he studies eight hours a day on top of actual classes, and another having a nervous breakdown and being sent to the hospital right before exams. Harry has his own episode when he falls off his chair screaming during an exam, and the proctor assumes he's just stressed out, but he's actually receiving a painful remote Mind Probe. | |
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Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note features the Shumei Seminar cram school, which is the only school the entire team goes to together. The school divides the classes by the students' academic performance (common in Japanese cram schools), and most of The Team are in the top class. | |
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In Charlotte Yuu Otosaka, who possesses the power to possess people for five seconds, uses the ability to possess the best students in his class and cheat off their papers, enabling him to get excellent grades. Getting into a good high school is another matter, though, since Yuu will end up taking the entrance exams with many different students, and thus has no way of knowing who will actually do well, so he scouts out the various cram schools in order to find promising students in advance of the exams. | |
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In Brave Story, Wataru attends a cram school which is his single social link with Mitsuru. | |
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In Higurashi: When They Cry, Keiichi attended one when he lived in the city. He became so stressed that he started to shoot random people with BB guns, which led to his family moving to Hinamizawa after he accidentally shot a child in the eye. | |
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In Persona 3, one of your Social Links is a little girl who attends a cram school. Yukari also mentions that she attends one in Persona 3 FES. | |
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In Persona 4, one of your Social Links is a middle schooler who attended cram school and then quit because it wasn't intense enough for him, leading to his mother hiring you as a tutor. | |
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Jou in Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, and Digimon Adventure tri. attends a cram school as a sort of Running Gag, because he's always stuck at cram school when he's needed elsewhere — he's not in Odaiba when Vamdemon's fog cuts it off from the rest of Tokyo, Taichi can't contact him for help to fight Diablomon in Our War Game, and Iori has to lie to get him out of a test so he can rescue the team when they're trapped underwater. It's usually Played for Laughs, but in tri, he shows some genuine anguish on having to miss so much action and socializing. | |
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The three main characters of Gourmet Girl Graffiti meet in a similar art-stream cram school, except they're middle schoolers trying to get into a high school arts program. | |
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Briefly mentioned in the anime of Azumanga Daioh, when Chiyo and Sakaki see a group of grade school children jumping rope and one of them announces that she's going to be late for cram school. | |
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The beginning of Fushigi Yuugi shows Miaka and Yui attending a cram school preparing for the entrance exams for the prestigious Jonan High School. | |
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In Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon and Sasaki met in cram school during their last year of middle school. Later in the novels, Kyon mentions that he probably would have to go to cram school if Haruhi hadn't started tutoring him. | |
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In Shaman King, Manta is a cram school student and first meets Yoh while rushing from cram school to his train home. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "The Yodar Kritch Award", a time-pressed Miss Brooks tries this approach with Bones Snodgrass. It fails miserably. | |
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In Death Note, Light goes to a cram school despite clearly not needing it. He just doesn't want to leave anything to chance. He winds up getting a perfect score on the university entrance exam. | |
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Persona: In Persona 3, one of your Social Links is a little girl who attends a cram school. Yukari also mentions that she attends one in Persona 3 FES. In Persona 4, one of your Social Links is a middle schooler who attended cram school and then quit because it wasn't intense enough for him, leading to his mother hiring you as a tutor. |
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo: "The Pied Piper" focuses on a particularly brutal one. The children aren't allowed to go home until everyone finishes all their work, or until the school closes (at 10 PM), whichever comes first. A student is later shown to be a sobbing wreck because he couldn't understand his math homework, and was made to feel like a failure because of it. The students get no breaks, not even to have dinner or a snack. No going to the bathroom more than twice per day. No recess or free time. Even the field trips are basically just more school. This drives the episode's client, a Friend to All Children, to kidnap a school bus full of students... to give them a day of having fun and playing outside, without any homework or teachers breathing down their necks. Young-woo and her colleagues, while they can't condone their client's methods, are appalled at how the school treats its students, and, unsurprisingly, find that all the kidnapping "victims" consider the incident to have been the best day ever. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 would reference cram schools as a Running Gag whenever they watched a Japanese film. In the ''Invasion of the Neptune Men episode, they refer to some children hanging out in the woods as "Cram Camp". | |
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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches: Urara Shiraishi is the smartest member of the Supernatural Studies Club and is increasingly seen going to cram school as the story goes along. This leads to a bit of tension when she starts dating Book Dumb Delinquent Ryu Yamada, as this means they can't spend as many afternoons together as they would like. | |
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In Chobits, Hideki and Shinbo attend a special cram school for high school graduates who flunked their university entrance exams. Shinbo goes on to marry their cram school teacher, Takako Shimizu. | |
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In Magical Project S, Misao attends prep school after her normal classes even though she's in fourth grade. | |
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Dear Brother takes place at a full-time cram school; the eponymous older brother figure is protagonist Nanako's former cram school tutor, Takehiko Henmi. | |
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One-Punch Man: In extra materials it's revealed that Child Emperor, aside from attending normal school, also attends Cram School... as a teacher. | |
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This is essentially the backdrop to The History Boys; while they're still in their usual school, the group is taking extra classes specifically tailored to get them into Oxford. | |
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In Katte Ni Kaizo, Kaizo apparently went to a cram school for people with weird talents and specialties. He winds up blowing the place up, unleashing its students on the world at large. | |
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Hidamari Sketch shows that there are special cram schools (dubbed "research institutes") for art-stream high school students who want to continue doing art in college. Arisawa's rendezvous with Yuno even takes place after she skips an Institute class and stays at school to paint, only to encounter Yuno's cell phone. | |
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In Hot Gimmick, Ryoki goes to a cram school despite not needing one — he can ace every class without even studying. He just does it to make his parents feel at ease. | |
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In Sailor Moon, Teen Genius Ami goes to a cram school where most of her introductory episode takes place. | |
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