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{{quote|''"[[Buffy-Speak|He's like some sort of]]... [[Trope Namer|non-giving up... school guy!]]"''|'''Bart''', on Principal Skinner, ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote|''"Suddenly he's the bad guy. [...] Ooooh but he's an underpaid civil servant trying to ensure the spoiled corrupt moronic youth of this country gets a proper education. Truly a villain such as this deserves to be punished and humiliated!"''|'''Dr. Insano''', ''[[
A subtrope of [[Determinator]], this is an educator (often a principal, though sometimes just a teacher) who, by all gods, swears that you ''will'' get an education, by all means necessary. This teacher will thus spend time hunting down students who try to skip school, to drag them back to class. If played with restraint, this means the principal spends his days patrolling the corridors of the school (rather than knee-deep in paper work and meetings as they would be IRL), maintaining a vigil for children roaming the halls without a hall pass, or worst, those that are late for class. The more serious examples of this trope will practically go on a quest when they learn that a student is not in class, tracking them across the city or even the country. They will brave the elements and the law, resorting to breaking and entering if they have to, all to make sure you go back to school. Often a [[Designated Antagonist]] (how dare they want to teach our kids!), which is usually partially justified by making the character a [[Jerkass]] into the bargain. May also be a [[Sadist Teacher]] who takes pleasure in the hunt and punishing his absconding students.
If the character in question is a principal, he may also be [[Dean Bitterman]] if he is doing out of a sense of authority or obsession with order - though not always, as sometime they may be doing it out genuine concern for their charges. Depending on how determined
More [[Fridge Logic]] occurs when one considers how apparently negative consequences for non-attendance only occur if
This character may have/be the following: [[Heroic Resolve]], [[Determinator]] and [[Implacable Man]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Parodied in ''[[Ranma
* ''[[Ultimate Teacher]]'' provides the perfect way to create a teacher that will never give up: cockroach DNA.
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== Film ==
* The Dean of Students in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* Mr. Hand in ''[[Fast Times
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* Mr. Strickland in ''[[Back to The Future]]''. It is shown that in the 30 years he's been working at the school, he spent most of it patrolling the corridors, watching for late students whom he calls "slackers".
** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Turns out Mr. Strickland's job is a real thing]] called a "Disciplinarian." Many schools have them to help keep order and cut down on delinquency.
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== Live Action Television ==
* Principal Snyder on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fits this trope, except that he doesn't actually care if they get educated.
* Principal Blackman on ''[[Strangers
* If ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' wasn't half full of these, [[Dysfunction Junction|most of the students wouldn't be in the school]]. Rachel Mason was a prominent example, as is Chris Mead.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In one ''[[Pogo (
== Video Games ==
* The teachers and prefects in ''[[Bully (
== Web Comics ==
* Similar to the ''Ranma'' parody, the Moperville North Principal in ''[[
* [[The Perry Bible Fellowship]] has a truancy bot collect children [http://www.pbfcomics.com/178/ on the spring break].
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** Once he finally took his nephews to school, he learned the school wouldn't open that day.
* Like in the above case, [[Casper And Friends|Little Audrey]] spent most of an episode trying to avoid a truant officer. Once he finally caught her, he learned the school was closed for a holiday. To make up for it, he helped Audrey with her fishing.
* [[Fairly Oddparents|Truant Officer Shallowgrave]] goes to whatever length to ensure kids go to school. But the principal has to pay extra to bring them back alive. Shallowgrave appeared in two episodes so far. In the first, he spent most of it chasing Timmy Turner, only to learn Timmy was with Adam West and that Timmy's parents don't mind it. In the second episode, it was revealed the incident cost Shallowgrave his job as a truant officer and he became a drill sergeant at F.U.N. ([[Fun
* [[Ricochet Rabbit]] and his deputy once acted as truant officers to take Dastardly Dolton to school. (He's a suspected criminal as well but nothing has been proven). Once they caught him, the teacher read the records and found out they also hasn't finished school.
* [[Huckleberry Hound]] spent most of an episode trying to catch a pair of twin truants. In the end, his efforts paid off and the principal comments that it should have been no problem for someone who went to school. Huck said he's never been to school and was forced to attend.
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