Springfield Elementary: One of the worst schools for Aspies

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Teachers: Don't care and won't challenge students who are good. This includes Ms. Hoover, Ms. Krabappel and Mr. Largo.

Bullies: Numerous. Nelson, Dolph, Kearney, Jimbo - they love to pick on nerds and just anyone weaker than them! Aspies (like Martin Prince and probably Milhouse Van Houten) are prime targets. And the bullies never seem to get in trouble.

Social Acceptability of Intelligence: Through the floor. There have been SEVERAL situations where Lisa became "cool" upon being perceived to be dumb, then shunned when she started appearing smart again. Even the teachers don't seem to appreciate it!

School Cafeteria: Disgusting. They've had to resort to use of Grade F meat, the food texture can be off-putting, and you can easily be caught in the crossfire of food fights.

From my understanding of The Simpsons it is suppose to be a parody of American life and culture - I can't comment on the accuracy of it as I am not an American. As it's a comedy show features of the school are exaggerated for humour. So, I suppose you could say that any state school (I believe they're called Public schools in America, although in England 'Public school' means Private school, which is moderately confusing) would be bad for an Aspie.

There are bullies in all schools, there are bullies everywhere in life.

Social acceptability of intelligence seems to be a problem in all the educational institutions that I have been to (I've been to nine, ten in September, although it's a University so I hope the view on intelligence will be different).

I'm interested to know why you perceive Martin Prince to and Milhouse to have Aspergers. I always assumed that Martin's main problem was being much smarter than his peers, and suffering from the kind of isolation that high intelligence imposes.

School food has never been good in my experience.

Springfield Elementary is a "slight" exaggeration of a "stereotypical" North American public school (notice the quotation marks).
Anyway I don't get all this sudden deep psychological scrutinizing of non-fictional places and characters. I don't know why exactly but maybe it's because I'm a cartoonist and author/illustrator myself that it bugs me.

Actually, Springfield Elementary would be a great place for me. In real life, in the first part of secondary school, I was part of a group very similar to the bullies. Primary school was rather boring, though. It was a christian school in a small town and it started the day with prayer, then hours of work, then a break, and then more hours of work before going home after another prayer.

You know, I thought thread was about a real school. My bad.

The episode where Lisa becomes a vegetarian (two independent thought alarms in one day) was a perfect example of why I hated school. Springfield Elementary isn't far off the elementary school I went to minus the cafeteria. I'm watching Simpsons right now ironically enough.

Don't you mean "fictional"? Anyway, I absolutely love deep over-analysis of fictional works. It helps paint them in a brand new light and give you a fresh perspective on them. Go to the WMG pages of TV Tropes, or /r/FanTheories and /r/shittyfantheories on Reddit, for some examples. Some of the most infamous include the "Babies are a Figment of Angelica's Imagination" Rugrats Theory, The Ed, Edd n Eddy "Cul-de-Sac is Purgatory" Theory, and The "Ash is in a Coma" Pokemon Theory (which is possibly the one that started the trend in the first place).