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The Good Old British Comp

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The Good Old British Comp	comment	Comprehensive schools, now generally just called "Secondary Schools", were set up in the 1960s by the Harold Wilson government, replacing the old system of Grammars and Secondary Moderns (where you went and a lot of your future depended on the dreaded 11 plus exams — this system still prevails in Northern Ireland and small parts of England, and a variation on it can be seen in the Harry Potter books and movies). School buildings in the UK widely vary in age, from Victorian era to brand new. On TV, many are Victorian. Fortunately, the days of the outside toilets and outside swimming pools are gone. Actually, the "outside" has gone too, having been sold off to property developers. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })British school pupils in almost all cases are required to wear school uniform and you can spot a troublemaker from a mile off by the fact that he or she isn't wearing it properly (skirt too short, tie askew, top button undone). It is of note that in some schools, not wearing one's uniform correctly has encroached en masse, to the extent that very few pupils wear the entire uniform correctly. They generally include a white shirt, tie, dark bottoms (trousers or skirts), smart dark shoes and, quite often, a blazer. These troublemakers also like to smoke behind the bike sheds, where romance also takes place. (Presumably, the smoke obscures the romance.) These days smoking in the Staff Room is illegal, so pupils and teachers both disappear behind the bike sheds where they carefully ignore each other. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Kids in glasses are generally portrayed as 'swots', as are "prim and proper young ladies" (e.g., Hermione Granger from Harry Potter). The former get bullied, the latter may turn out to be Beautiful All Along. Gangs are common, both of the good ("let's have a jape") and bad ("let's nick the smart kid's dinner money") variety, although most schools now have electronic payment for school dinners, so it's more "steal their dinner card/finger print". Kids in TV schools display a far greater degree of coordination on their own than one ever saw in real life. The teachers have to be called "Miss" or "Sir" (a policy that only actually happens in some schools) and are generally highly strict. Whatever you do, don't annoy the Head Teacher. They used to be able to administer a caning, but this was stopped in the 1980s; many a media commentator has called for its return. Highly popular for the expected hijinks the students (and also often teachers) will get up to, because really, they shouldn't get up to them. Such shows are naturally prone to Dawson Casting. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })There are a wide range of differences between English and Scottish schools, but none of them are relevant to the trope, except that uniforms seem to be more optional. See also British Education System. Compare and contrast with Boarding School, the other British education trope. Examples:
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The Good Old British Comp / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld of Terry Pratchett, the Fantasy Counterpart of the Good Old British Comp is the Thieves' Guild School. Pratchett did not get round to describing this teaching institution in anything like the same depth of detail he gave to the more socially upscale Assassins' Guild School, but The Thieves' Guild Yearbook sketches out enough background detail to infer that this is Ankh-Morpork's take on the Good Old British Comp. Taken, as you would expect, Up to Eleven.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_47e3e276	comment	St. Frost Academy in Wasted Youth.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_4d23c	comment	Waterloo Road
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The Good Old British Comp / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures series one had one episode set at the local comp (Park Vale High School, which despite the name is this trope and not a High School) and the second series sees an increase in school set scenes because the Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Maria, Rani, is the daughter of the new Headmaster.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_722ce24d	comment	The Inbetweeners is the single best, most realistic depiction of British school life ever seen. Of particular note is how up-to-date the insults are (bellend and dickwad are particularly popular) and how they don't shy away from having kids swearing, watching porn and going on and on about sex (you know, as actual secondary schoolers and 6th formers actually do).
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The Good Old British Comp / int_7539b480	comment	Annyseed attends a Comprehensive school, although the laws of the Annyseed universe don't require the students to wear uniforms.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_7899c84f	comment	Adrian Mole went to one in the earlier books and many of his problems, especially in the first book, occur here, such as his dealings with Barry Kent and Headmaster Reginald "Popeye" Scruton. The sterotypical depiction is lampshaded when Hamish Mancini visits the school and is disappointed that canings have been done away with.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_9e3c5022	comment	Carry On Teacher, even though the school is a secondary-modern.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who episode "School Reunion" was set at a comprehensive school whose teachers had been replaced with shapeshifting aliens.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_d2253af8	comment	Teachers
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The Good Old British Comp / int_d69e3bce	comment	The Beiderbecke Affair
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The Good Old British Comp / int_d7578cf3	comment	The History Boys - though not a comprehensive (they go to grammar school), all the characters are working class and explicitly underdogs in their applications to Oxford.
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The Good Old British Comp / int_e44cb505	comment	Hollyoaks has several storylines set at the local version, Hollyoaks High (although its focus is on university students.)
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The Good Old British Comp / int_e4ee75a9	comment	The Demon Headmaster is set in a "too good to be true" example (if the name wasn't a clue). The New Transfer Student protagonist finds that almost everyone is a model student, and kids can even be found parroting facts back and forth during breaks. Then she finds herself reciting stock lines whenever someone asks her about the school, and has no idea why...
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Good Old British Comp	processingCategory2	School Tropes
The Good Old British Comp	processingCategory2	Settings
Carry On	seeAlso	The Good Old British Comp
Carry On Teacher / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Clockwise / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
CarryOn	seeAlso	The Good Old British Comp
CHERUB Series / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Stravaganza / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Fellfromfiction	seeAlso	The Good Old British Comp
TheGenesisOfJennyEverywhere	seeAlso	The Good Old British Comp
TheGoodOldBritishComp	sameAs	The Good Old British Comp
Dear John / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Grange Hill / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Hank Zipzer / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Please Sir! / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
So Awkward / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Strange Hill High / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Teachers / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Teachers (2001) / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
The Inbetweeners / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
The Sarah Jane Adventures / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Up / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Skool Daze (Video Game) / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Annyseed (Webcomic) / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp
Bad Machinery (Webcomic) / int_fa5381d4	type	The Good Old British Comp

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