Dennis Thompson
Dennis Thompson
Dennis Thompsonis the drummer with the 1960s/1970s Detroit proto-punk/hard rock group MC5, which had a #82 US single with "Kick Out the Jams" and a #30 US album with the same name...
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth7 September 1948
warrior
He was a warrior out there for us.
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I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.
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In high school certainly you can do a lot of things to increase attendance, but certainly if there's an adverse consequence the kids have set up and taken notice that underage citations are being given out and they're getting back to school,
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I think nine (phone calls) is pretty good. I've been driving all over the city, going to schools, and I have to tell you, I don't see, I haven't seen any kids on the street, so they're either hiding indoors or they're in school. I'm hoping it's the latter,
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We've worked closely with the Rockford police department to take our calls from the truancy hotline, identify those areas where we are getting those calls, and focus the resources there. That seems to have worked out exceedingly well,
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We're looking out here. We're seeing this problem, and I realize that being in Rockford for a while, there's strong feelings about it. But we're going to have to deal with it.
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We're going to do what it takes to serve these children, ... We're going to try to make a very chaotic period in their lives as transitional as possible.