St. Joseph's Academy is the best of the best, a boarding school with unrivaled test scores and exemplary discipline. Or so it seems... For under the school lies a carefully hidden secret basement, built by the principal, with rooms containing grueling tests intended to put the worst and most uncooperative students back on the right path. The children sent there reemerge as perfect model students, with the desire to never return. Thankfully, a group of creative so-called "dunces" decide to combine their individual talents and fight back...