Crocker Grading System

The Crocker Grading System is an impossible school grading system where *everyone* except maybe the smartest students in the entire class gets an F. This can also occur if one student in particular gets F after F after F... or even gets held back due to multiple F's.

In countries where letter grades do not exist, the Crocker Grading System will ensure a zero for the protagonist's homework, test, quiz, etc.

See also Innocent punishment for school mix-ups where this seems to happen. Of course, it would still count as this if the one who did it is shown with F's on his/her report card.

Of course, fictional examples only, please. Too many F's in real life will get one placed on Academic Probation, after all.

## Examples

* Nickelodeon:
	+ The Trope Namer is Denzel Crocker from *The Fairly OddParents!*. Timmy in particular got so many F's he rarely gets punished for them (it depends on the writer). Then again, Crocker keeps giving people F's (he's only ever been shown to give A's to AJ unless he's forcefully persuaded to give Timmy an A) because of his obsession with fairies. This annoys Timmy enough to the point that in one episode, he wished everybody was dumber than he was.
	+ *SpongeBob SquarePants* fails every driving test at a boating school. In other words, SpongeBob's a great fry cook yet a terrible boater. Mrs. Puff once called him "unteachable" due to his repeated failures.
	+ Inverted with *Jimmy Neutron* who often gets straight A's (considering his IQ, this is expected), yet played straight for his friend Sheen in one episode. Sheen got a *quadruple F-minus* for writing false facts taken from the Ultra Lord website... that he *wrote himself*, mind you.
	+ "Failed. You all *failed*! You all got *zeroes*! Except you, Kyle, you got a 12." Cue everyone being angry at the robot (with Fanboy's brain in it).
* Kevin of *Daria* has to repeat his senior year due to him earning bad enough grades to fail the year.
* *Doraemon*: Noby gets zero after zero to remind you how much of a constant failure he was.
* *Sailor Moon*: Usagi/Serena also gets zero after zero. It's even lampshaded she gets poor grades due to standing in the hall so much.
* In *Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls*, in lieu of actual grades, Center-sensei denies medals to students for breaking rules. Though this only happened *twice*- once to Dreamcast, and once to Saturn.
* Light Yagami of *Death Note* inverts this, as he's a straight-A honor student "considered to be one of Japan's best and brightest".
* It's implied Seki will be put through this and given a zero after he takes his exams. Considering all the things he's done throughout the manga, it makes sense.
* Averted in *The Simpsons* when it comes to individual teachers, but played straight for Springfield Elementary itself in one episode, where it was almost deemed "the worst school in the state". Bart's test did save the school, making *Wilson* Elementary the worst school in the state.
* Cartoon Network:
	+ *Dexter's Laboratory*: Dexter almost always gets straight A's... except in physical education. One episode even focused on this. Considering Dexter owns a secret laboratory (the focus of the show), this makes sense.
	+ *Ed, Edd n Eddy*: In one episode, Ed and Eddy get bad report cards and Edd (known as Double D) ends up telling their parents.
	+ *Clarence* has a variation with buddy stars: Sumo has *negative* buddy stars.
	+ *The Powerpuff Girls (1998)*: Mojo Jojo said that based on what he's heard he'd give the entire linguistics class he teaches F's.
	+ One episode of *Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?* has the whole class except the titular character getting F's.
* *Dave the Barbarian* gets F's and Z's for pillaging, but passes anyway because penmanship accounts for the majority of the test.
* *Johnny Test*: Mr. Teacherman is *worse* in this regard than Crocker, since while Crocker gives out F's due to his fairy obsession, Teacherman gives them out for no apparent reason. In one episode, he even gave Johnny an F "for falling asleep". His 1800s counterpart, however, averts this completely.
* *Star vs. the Forces of Evil*: Baby once told Star that she failed, until she saw that Star's magic exceeded her expectations.
* In the *Totally Spies!* episode "Alex Gets Schooled", it turns out that Alex's A and B grades were switched with Mandy's straight-F grades and getting Alex shipped off to a school in England. Alex's mother calls her at the end of the episode to tell her about the mix-up, while Mandy got a rather fitting punishment for her acts throughout the rest of the season.
* Parodied in *Homestar Runner*: "Not good enough. F-minus-minus." It even ends up serving as the Trope Namer for TV Tropes' equivalent of this.
* Parodied with "the worst grade imaginable: an A minus... *minus*." Yes, it's played Just to Get a Laugh.