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The Influence of a Non-Traditional High School Chief The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:25 0:00 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 ...

Mr. Clark 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, Dec. 29, 2020, after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82. At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J., Mr. Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. That lifted the expectations of those who remained, continua...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. —  Joe Louis Clark, the 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 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, N.J., 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’...

Legendary New Jersey principal Joe Clark, who was famous for carrying a baseball bat and inspired the film Lean On Me starring Morgan Freeman, dies at Florida home at age 82 Clark died at his Gainesville, Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said in statement The baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal inspired the 1989 film Lean On Me starring Morgan Freeman  He was principal of crime and drug-ridden Eastside High School in New Jersey Clark in one day expelled 300 students for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession Presi...

Joe Clark, former principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, poses for a photo in the school hallways in February of 1988. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images) Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding Principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods at Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside High School inspired the 1989 film Lean on Me, has passed away. A longtime resident of South Orange, NJ, Clark (82) retired to Gainesville, Florida. He was at home and surrounded by his family when he succumbed to his lon...