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p8 tribunefebruary 3 1993 people st hooper is the attendance cop of sdss bruce stapley correspondent jay hooper is a man with a mission an educator dedi cated to keeping kids in the classroom and not on the streets or home watching the soaps hooper in his fourth year as viceprincipal at stouffville district secondary school sdss is responsible for implementing the daytoday policies passed down by princi pal alan dickson hoopers role as attendance cop has earned him the repu tation as a hitman of sorts as the schoofs dispenser of disci pline it is his task to keep track of students who skip classes to warn the culprits phone parents and occasional ly hand out suspensions he would be the first to admit that his job along with his sometimes corny manner has made him the target of digs grumblings and even the occasional groundless threat from students but hooper insists hes out to win the war even if he loses a few battles along the way home heating oil price per litre 308 dena diesel 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always got so many more days or even years to draw the kid back on side despite his spoilsport image hooper said he thinks that deep down inside the students accept that he is performing an essential task for students to learn they have to be in school i think most of the kids understand that the job is necessary he also knows he has the support of the school staff and the majority of the parents theres a structure in place the rules are there so i can stand my ground thats why it m an indictment against our society in general that we have to go to his extent to keep kids in school works so well hooper said the fact atten dance has become such a big issue is a sad reflection on the times in which we live its an indictment against our society in general that we have to go to this extent to keep kids in school theres just not the same concern for attendance among students as there once was hooper points to the success of the schools attendance poli cy which he put into effect in his second year at sdss the rules call for a threeday suspension for students who skip three class es with credits being lost in any course in which a student misses 20 classes for any rea son except chronic illness it works the policy has reduced absences significant ly he said hooper goes to great lengths to learn at least a little about every student at sdss while admitting he is always more familiar with roughly 10 per cent of the student body the chronic attendance offenders he makes it his business to familiarize himself with all 750 teens at the school i get a feeling for each of my kids either from talking with the kids the principal or the staff hooper who was born in montreal and raised in sarnia spent four years at the univer sity of british columbia a year at the university of toronto and another year at the university of oregon he majored in physical edu cation and served as boys gym teacher at thornlea sec ondary school in thornhill for 14 years hooper came to sdss in 1989 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