Streaming these 6 TV shows might make you feel better about heading back to school

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