The Influence of a Non-Traditional High School Chief
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principal whose unusual way of enforcing rules became the subject of a 1989 Hollywood movie.
Clark died late last year at the age of 82. He gained national attention for his leadership at Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey.
“You are not
inferior,” is what Clark would often tell his students. Many of the Eastside students were African American or Latino. They grew up in a difficult environment. Many of the students who attended his school faced violence, crime, drugs and troubled family life.
Clark believed that students had to be shocked often to understand the influences that could prevent them from succeeding in school and in life.
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Principal Joe Clark who inspired film Lean on Me has died
Clark was portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1989 film Lean on Me that was loosely based on his tenure at Eastside. Author: Associated Press Updated: 10:29 PM EST December 30, 2020
GAINESVILLE, Fla Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82.
At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. That lifted the expectations of those who remained, continually challenging them to perform better. Clark’s unorthodox methods, which included roaming the hallways with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, won him both
Principal Joe Clark, who inspired film Lean on Me, dies
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 1988, file photo, Joe Clark, principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J., stands with rap group Run-DMC before the group gave a concert at the school in support of Clark s way of running his school. Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film âLean on Me,â died at his Florida home on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said in statement. He was 82. (AP Photo/Peter Cannata, File)
Principal Joe Clark who inspired film Lean on Me has died
Clark was portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1989 film Lean on Me that was loosely based on his tenure at Eastside. Author: Associated Press Updated: 10:29 PM EST December 30, 2020
GAINESVILLE, Fla Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82.
At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. That lifted the expectations of those who remained, continually challenging them to perform better. Clark’s unorthodox methods, which included roaming the hallways with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, won him both