Trope Talk: Welcome to Super School!
Academies of adventure! Valedictorians of valor! Highschools of heroism! Colleges of catastrophe, but like in a good way!
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Watching this really made me think about just how horrible most Western-style schools really are for children, and how scary it is that everyone (including me) tends to just kinda take this for granted. Like, gee I wonder what it says about (for example) the USA that the 'super schools' we come up with almost ALWAYS feature horrible classism, supervillain bullies who flaunt their power, cackling teachers who scheme to subvert justice, absurdly unfair entrance exams, and a looming threat in the outside world that our protagonists are completely unprepared for. I wonder...
I never take it for granted, or at the very least, think about it a lot. High school was 98% lows for me; it was a thoroughly miserable experience full of stress, sensory overloads, expectations, and intense daily frustration at the futility and uselessness of it all. It genuinely felt like being in a cage, or even a prison. I read somewhere that most schools aren't for learning, they're for conforming, and I still think that's true. The only thing I liked were three teachers who actually respected me and understood me instead of trying to force me to be a certain way, and art class, which I thrived at. Yet I still hope for a future in which children can have all their basic physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs met and beyond, and truly feel safe, secure, and protected while learning what they want to learn. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but it's what I always wished for, back then.
Yeah, Fire Emblem: Three Houses (during the school arc) actually goes right from big dance to school under siege. Fun time!
If I had a nickel for every super school media I've watched over the course of my life, this video has shown me I'd have four nickels - which isn't a lot but twice the normal amount for this meme quote
Good on you for going the whole video without using Harry Potter as an example.
Or Ender's Game! ... okay, she probably didn't exclude Ender's Game deliberately.
Looks like the playback issues from hitting play on Patreon of last time are happening again? On the plus side, the YT link works: https://youtu.be/BDpDV1Qxfik
Very sorry it's not working for you! It seems to be up and running correctly from what we can tell, so if you go to YouTube directly you should see it. Last week was a truly extraordinary fluke of circumstances, it's unlikely to have been the same thing happening this week. Let us know if you can't access it on YouTube. -B