Joe Clark Was A Horrible Principal In Lean On Me

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filial_piety said:
he's exactly what we need...atleast back then anyway...wish there were more like him :manny:
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There are Black principals like him all over the US. Their retention rate is shyt, their test scores are in the toilet, and they’ve alienated like 1/3 of the parents in their neighborhood.

Being an a$$hole, “act tough” principal doesn’t work - he was an aberration.

I had a “tough” principal in HS and she kicked 1/2 our class out of the school by my 3rd year of high school. Derailed the lives of some brilliant, but misguided, students.
 
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This thread is :mjlol:

But nah Joe Clark was a GOAT character

He was wilding at first but he brought Mr Darnell back and showed him wild Love

Same with just about everybody he turned up on in the beginning except that kid that was beating up Kid Ray moms

And he even tried to make peace with her but she wanted no accountability for her son :gucci:
 
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Joe's story is pure bullshyt and the worst thing to happen to up-and-coming black teachers, who feel that they have to yell at and belittle black children to gain "respect".

tl;dr - Dude never went to jail. The school was never in danger of being taken over. The test score improvements were minimal. And the only people he got rid of were truants - hardly the drug dealers and gangsters we see in the movie.

Also, black educators hated him because of the way he treated the students and the staff. You know who loved Joe Clark? WHITE PEOPLE.

In fact, Paterson’s white mayor, Frank X. Graves Jr., was one of Clark’s earliest supporters. Eastside High had two white vice principals, and both were strong Clark supporters, too. The white music teacher did have some run-ins with Clark--he transferred her to another school two years after he got there--but she did teach the school’s 2,700 students the alma mater.

Clark initially had strong support from the head of the history department, the athletic director, a boys’ shop teacher and two English teachers--to mention only a few who immediately come to mind. All were white.

And it was a white member of the board of education, William Pascrell, who lobbied to get Clark assigned to Eastside High. That is especially significant, because Pascrell was the city’s Democratic leader. Clark is a Republican.

Clark called the movie’s portrayal of whites “sad.” He said, “Some of my greatest supporters are white.” And Clark, 50, agreed that fictional Mayor Don Bottman was nothing like Graves. “The mayor is off. Paterson’s mayor was much more supportive.”
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Commentary : 'Lean on Me': A Modern Myth? : Taking Artistic Liberty With Real Joe Clark

The 'Make-Believe World' of Lean on Me (Opinion)

https://www.cracked.com/article_16478_7-movies-based-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshyt.html
 
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