The Principal Expelled 300 Bullies to Save The Worst School in Town
2022 ж. 11 Мау.
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A decaying inner-city school needs to pass the minimum basic skills test so they hire a new principal who will turn the school around with harsh autocracy - based on a true story.
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If the mother had spent one tenth of her energy on her kid that she spends on trying to destroy the principal, her kid would probably stay in school.
I was thinking same. Lolz
Unfortunately with parents like her, it's never about her kid. It's about her being called out for bad parenting and she just wants to vent her anger in any way possible.
yep,many people are like that.busy criticizing other instead of taking charge of their own life,i am guilty of it as well
to mammies their sons can do no wrong
Exactly
I like how the parent of the disrespectful kid was the villain cause that's usually how it is instead of her correcting her kids behavior she tried to make the world suffer
Parents like that need to never be heard from again
single mothers lol, its obvious there was no father in that kids life, he got whatever he wanted and lead to his demise.
@@afwdawdawdwadw1595 BS
Sad thing is, most parents are like her (not all). Having this mentality: 'My little angel can do no wrong. Its everyone else bullying her/him that's the problem' I find it's the parents who ruin the child in the end.
Sounds like huge portion of my mom side of the family hahaha....
For anyone who wants to know, this is the movie "Lean on Me" from 1989.
Thank you! Doing the Lord's work right here!
Damn. This movie was made when Ted Bundy got Executed.
@@lexionplayz563 XD
@@fattybuccha72190Yeah it was about a month and 2 weeks after Ted Bundy died in Old Sparky.
Like why make a recap but leave out the title of the film?!?
Funny how there was one kid who begged to come back and Mr. Clark actually gave the kid another chance. If any of those kids (or parents) cared as much then they would have done the same thing. Instead let's blame the principal for kicking out the kids who clearly don't care to learn
You know this movie is old because Morgan Freeman doesn’t look like he’s pushing 70 years old
True, but he looks like he pushing 50...🤣😭😉😅😂
He looks the same age in every movie 😭
He's 189 years old.
You savage hahaha
@@mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938 👀👀
Certainly not the best teacher. But the teacher this school needed.
But he was the principal right?
@@Sir_4_5_SHOTS Yep. He was a teacher, but when they showed Eastside 20 years later, he was the principal.
When it comes to being principal,he act like a dictator...but a good one they needed
@@huyphamle159 it's a rare case where the dictator actually does an amazing job instead of failing like some certain country in certain part of Korean continent. The principal actually paid a lot of attention, put his efforts to the max, and cared a lot for the students (unlike some certain teacher in '60s failing at experimenting on implementing dictatorship to immature students carelessly) That school already had more than 2K clean students despite of already dumping out the early disappointment ones and yet it still functioned properly and even boosted the passing percentages more than 60% From this movie i can already tell why those bullies turned out like that just by looking at Leonna.
@Can you not? Can i not? Can WE not? Singapore is an example of a country that has heavily progressed thanks to an iron-fisted leader similar to Joe
I agree with Joe. Education is a privilege. Help the students that want to learn.
What is The name of The movie
@@davidsamsonjnr1095 it's called Lean on me (1989)
Same. I am of the philosophy that helps those who want to help themselves.
back when i was in school it pissed me off when the teachers would stop class cause two of the class clowns would be talking or on their phones or something like, you got a room full of kids that wanna learn the material still, stopping class every 10 minutes to wait for the troublemakers is only hindering everyone else. then a few grades later i had a teacher that took no bullshit and was so thankful cause kids that didnt wanna learn were separated and the rest of us got to attend class with no interruptions.
These movies were great. They did show the real problem in education. Todays movies reek of forced diversity
I grew up a few blocks from this highschool, its based on a true story & its truly no exaggeration. Till this day that school is nothing short of a tragedy.
The school never got fixed?
Then its not that true of a story is it?
@@khansahb8 lol, well what's true is that under that principles leadership that school did turn around, but once he was gone it was all downhill from there.
@@TheShiningOnesyou ain’t bullshiting either. When Joe Clark was there he was the man and once he left it plummeted into the toilets
They set him up to get fired too. Celebrated them passing the HSPT by having Run DMC perform and next thing you know they had a stripper show. Who does that?
It’s actually sad that adults fail to realize that children, especially high school students, simply need the comfort, support and encouragement from their parents to excel in anything and everything they do. It is simply the feeling that someone will walk with you, fail or succeed, that they need during those years.
No that isn't always the case I had that and yet I still skip school I still did drugs I had nothing to do with the people who raised me, but I will give them this I have a strong set of morals because of them. But the school skipping that was all me and I only started caring when they threatened to put my grandmother in jail which makes no sense why are they threatening to put her in jail if I skip school? What is she supposed to do hold my hand the whole time and make sure I'm in class the whole time?
@@gamingangel4283 - It's considered Educational Neglect. If a parent or guardian fails to correct the behavior CPS had the legal right to take the minor from said guardian. Depending on on the state as each penalty is different. Jail time can be one of such penalties for a parent or guardian. They gave you a choice. Your grandmother wasn't correcting the problem. As a minor and her being a legal guardian she's responsible for you well being. Unless the crime you committed gets you tried as an adult she can be held just as responsible
@@gamingangel4283 Because you were a child and you didn't think about the consequences of your actions you only started caring when it started to effect people you care about. You were a minor which means someone is responsible for you and legally any consequences you bring on yourself is also on them
That's a truckload of bullshit right there.
@@jasonalbran376 funny how we as peasants can be held accountable like that but it does not work the other way around.
The parents of the kids who should be expelled gets whatever they want is one of the MANY things wrong with american public schools.
Using a make believe story as an example is one of the MANY things wrong with the American public.
this is a fictional story and ive never heard of a similar situation happening before. what point are you trying to make?
@@brandonsanchez398 bruh, it happens so many times, just because it doesn't appear in the news doesn't mean it doesn't happen
@@MichaelApproved its based on real events and if you don't think shit parents support shit kids in every school system I have a bridge to sell you.
@@MichaelApproved Bruh, this movie is based on a true story. Look up Joe Louis Clark he did expel 300 students but not like he did in the movie.
Leonna is the model for every Karen parent who can't be bothered to be involved in their childrens' lives and studies to this day, who view school as free day care and teachers as mandatory babysitters. Having friends who are or were teachers, these are the most demoralizing part of education today for teachers, and the biggest reason for student failure. I grant that the entire system is failing, especially in inner cities, but parents only ever want to blame the teachers, if they even make it that far now. It's a genuine shame.
Ironically, she's neither white nor middle to upper class!
@@daniellevinson6975Being a Karen isn't race or income based, tho.
They can't accept they failed their kids, so they seek to shift the guilt to any other party that isn't them. That's how a lot of people are, sadly.
@@glidershower Absolutely!!
Her kid was a nice young boy - This happened even in 1960s
I had the honor of meeting Mr. Clark when he appeared at my middle school as a motivational speaker. He was a great man, and I wish that were more like him. Rest In Power.
Rest in Velocity
Kicking the bullies out of schools is probably the best thing that could happen for society in general and the well-being of the environments in schools.
That's why school shooters are needed. US American let it grow 😂
agreed. there are alternative schools, charter schools and even residential schools for the more aggressive, or delinquent, students. The 'just having a bad day and lashing out' excuse does not cover the trend of dysfunction and multifaceted violence of and actual 'bully.' (ie nakshatra). Having twenty plus years in both youth and adult correctional environments as well as an MPA, placing troubled youth in a different learning environment it the better option.
They were beyond bullies. Had they done these things outside the school they’d have records. Schools need to stop allow criminal behavior go unchecked. Most minors get a one time pass for first minor offenses and that scares a lot from worst
@@nakshatramusic21 are you a girl or something?
@@nakshatramusic21 you literally wrote a whole essay lmao
It's extremely difficult for a teacher or other school faculty to fix a kid that got messed up by his/her family situation. Most of the time it just doesn't happen. Teachers might try to turn the kid around but usually it's just damage control. Parents have much greater potential to help stop their kid's problem behavior than teachers. That's really sad because so many parents lack the time, ability or willingness to raise their kids properly.
Individual teachers can't do much but reforms do help a lot. My favourite is classrooms for teen mums /parents just a quite place to breastfeed, calm a crying baby ect. Most kids need those kinda reforms also a kick in the teeth(and sex ed), going through a pregnancy will normally do that to ya.
Yes yes yes…..
Teachers can do a lot by just listening, instead they’re too focused on saying shit based on presumptions. I broke down crying by my locker one day and was brought to a counselor, I said I was crying cause I hate my moms boyfriend. He didn’t ask why but started telling me about his childhood. I understood the purpose but if he had asked me what happened I would’ve said that my moms boyfriends is a meth addict who touched me that morning. He didn’t ask me why, he just wanted to spout shit to hide his inability to properly understand kids and nothing was done. I’ve looked to teachers for help and they only give a shit if something valuable to them is on the line. No teacher would care enough for any student to just listen without prejudice. His prejudice was seeing me as just a kid upset about moms new boyfriend, which is wrong. I was a kid getting abused and broke down one day looking for help, I just needed someone to listen. Teachers are people, people are full of bullshit. I think the least of everyone until I know them, but the more I know the more I hate them cause everyone is a piece of shit on the inside. No one reflects the ideals they hold, they simply hold them to say “hEY LoOK wHaT i CaN dO”. I’ve only seen teachers use their position as a podium for themselves, an example would be when students come back from vacation we have to deal with teachers telling us what they did. Maybe they’ll have their student pets talk but in the end we’re 20 minutes into class with the only progress being a self centered display of them shoving their heads up their assholes. If we don’t have time for every student to share then stfu, you shouldn’t have the time either. Every teacher I’ve met has shown themselves to be completely incapable of seeing a student as a student, with no prejudice. They see me as I look, but often our environment influences that and no one try’s to understand cause they don’t have to. No one makes the choice to understand, it’s forced on them. The counselor told me about his sad childhood so I’d be thankful for what I have, but he never took a moment to think I could be going through something far worse than he could imagine. But what should I expect when my Mom did the same thing.
I agree. The children that have been mentally damaged by their upbringing outnumber staff and are beyond simple exposure to a good role model. Even as early as middle school, the kids are beyond help and, like you said, it's just damage control. Keep them in the classroom, lower all the behavioral standards, and get (for the parents) get them diagnosed and on behavioral meds. That's the reality. They don't turn around when they're that far gone.
Amen!
Every school needs people like him. Because a lot of school students lack discipline.
"You rack disciprine." -South Park
@Colin12475 exactly what I thought 😂😂
Joe is the type of teacher i love, seems strict and hateful but is actually kind and caring
Yes he was. He is what the educational system needs but the system tends to get rid of. I'm a teacher and the system still doesn't seem to understand the problems. They are worried about lawsuits from parents, losing funding if they expel a student or getting re-elected instead of educating the students. I remember a student who never did his homework and wanted to take Calculus. I saw him and several boys from the same class and I asked him how he was doing in Calculus. He said he was earning an A. I must have had a puzzled look on my face. He started to leave. I said "Hold it!" and then I said there was NO Way on God's Green Earth you could be earning an A in her without doing your Homework and you never did any homework in my class. How did she get you to do it? He informed me that if he did not do his homework that the teacher would expel him from the class. That she 100 other students who wanted to be there! Everyone has a right to education but its also a privilege to be there
While the mother is trying to destroy the principal for kicking out her bad kid, her kid's probably out there getting itself destroyed with illegal stuff and bad influences. Parents should team with their kids and guide them to adulthood, but that woman was too blinded that she didn't even look at her kid.
It’s like people forget their own children is an example of the parent themselves.
@@powlow3676 right!? Even if we raised ourselves, we still are a reflection of our parents
“itself”
Mr Miyagi: No such thing as bad kid, only bad parent! Parent say, child do. Parent do, child do.
@@ngndnd what do you suggest? Is it not understandable anyways?
Joe Clark was a literal legend! He was a man with a mission that went into that school and turned it back around. Dropped the dead weight and worked hard on the students that wanted to pass. Sadly, Joe Clark passed away in December of 2020 at the age of 83. He was regarded in New Jersey as one of the finest principals ever seen in the school system. How the world could use a Joe Clark right now. RIP Joe Clark! ❤️
Movie title ??
@@breacharce2536 Lean On Me
God Speed you absolute Legend
there is a lot more criticism of his methods these days. could you imagine someone doing that these days? he wouldn't last a weekend.
@@junodonatus4906 his thinking was that the bad ones were creating more bad ones. basically, they were forcing the good ones to adapt to their bad environment. once they were removed they could thrive.
This is honestly how the high school I went to is right now. When I was in high school, we had a wonderful, amazing African American woman as a Principal. She made sure everyone felt safe in the building. The place felt like a home away from home and the school was one of the best in the district! But now that she isn't the principal there anymore and the current principal is an absolute coward who thought the best way to assert his authority was to change the entire school dress code. My little brother had an absolutely HORRIBLE bully for his entire freshman year who made his life a living hell, but instead of expelling the kid like he should've, the current principal decided that the kid would get suspended for the rest of that school year. THE BULLY BROUGHT A KNIFE TO SCHOOL!!! HE BROUGHT A WEAPON!!! THAT IS PROPER REASONING FOR AN EXPULSION!!!
Principals don't have the power to expel students. That is much higher up the chain.
@@glennwatson3313 Regardless, my little brothers safety was in danger.
@@firechasersparkles2023 I'm sure you are right but the people the blame are not the principal or the teachers. The blame falls with the voters and the school board they elected.
Remember, we pay schools for knowledge, not pay for suffering.
So I used to attend a bad high school, one time, most of the class was failing math. My white female teacher, whose name I don't remember, initiated the course one day by saying, "they ask me why I am at this school when I could work for a better school, a suburban school where I can get paid better. I work here because I care for you all; I want you to succeed." Her words touch me to this day.
Yea, I had a similar experience, only the teacher was black. He taught boys how to be gentlemen and girls to be ladies. Every once in a while, we used to break out in song in class.
Lol don't remember her name
What's their race have to do with it?
and her name....was Betty White. This is her story.
@@ultimatesunrise I don't mean any offence by having the race
If only Leanna put enough effort into her own kid as she did on trying to get Joe fired.
No for real. I re-watched this the other day after like 10 years. And now that i've actually work with middle school kids before i totally agree with this. If they put half as much time into their kids as they do complaining how it's everyone else's fault. The kids might actually learn something!
Some parents can only see their children as perfect angels being held down by the man. Dealt with many of them in my life. It's never their babies fault.
@@0INFERNO1 some parents can't accept that they raised Satan himself
Name of the movie anyone ?
@@section5760 Lean on me
I love the concept of not letting a few bad apples spoil the entire tree, I've always been the kind of person that believes there's hope for everyone and that no one is completely hopeless but as I grew up and experienced how the world works I've accepted the fact that you can't help some people because quite simply, they don't want to be helped, take the kid in this movie for example who came back and apologized to the principal and ended up doing great, alot of those expelled kids could've had the same opportunity if they really wanted it but instead using probable movie logic and normal logic, I imagine they got expelled, went to a life of crime in the streets and then blamed it on their expulsion and their "lack of opportunities"
I see it more as, everyone can be redeemed if given the chance but they have to mean it and put effort into it. I still think that no one is completely hopeless, it's just that, if they don't want it you shouldn't waste your energy on them when you could use it for something more productive.
It's very difficult for some teachers and school staff to deal with such delinquent students. Most of their problems derived from their homes and families, and their parents more than likely so don't play an active part in the kids' lives. Many parents just consider their kids innocent and refusing to accept the fact that they're bullies or doing something negative and blame the school and system instead of putting effort and properly parenting and disciplining their kids. Parents play the most critical role in a child's upbringing and development. There's only so much that the school or teachers can do to help students.
Really kicking out the children disrupting class and the school peace is a Must. If only that mother put that much effort into her child who was kicked out.
It's not a real documentary. IRL the Staff/Teacher's Union were after him, for firing teachers. I believe he also embarrassed the Cops & Criminal Justice folks for not arresting drug dealers as well??
Correct me if I am wrong but from what I understand public schools are funded by the number of butts in seats and thus don't expel the troublemakers which makes it difficult for those who want to learn and for teachers to teach. 🤔
@@DarknamjaOnly Partly. But the real "problem students," frequently ditch school or have attendance problems anyway.
We can only dream..
well congratulations you just expelled 95% of all American high school students for talking in class 😂
Pretty funny how Leona was mad about her kid getting expelled from a dangerous, crime ridden school that he wasn't going to graduate from anyways and was likely about to be shut down. Made a whole lotta sense.
You can't expect an idiot to think can you?
Well Leona Barrett was a b**** anyway and I also didn't like how Chief Gaines called the kids savages how dare he!
yeah, that was so weird. lol
Narcissist parenting in a nutshell
If the school gets rid of her kid and the school succeeds, it means the principal was right and the kid was part of the problem, making the mom look bad. If the school keeps the kid and the school fails or if the school gets rid of the kid and the school fails, it means she has deniability and that she isn't a failure of a mother.
This is such a good movie. The writing, the directing and of course the phenomenal performances out of the actors. What I love the most about this film is that it shows that his efforts were not flawless. That he struggled in his attempts. He failed many times, but his heart was always in the right place even if his actions and words sometimes weren't. This is a film I never grow tired of.
It's based on an actual person so Joe Louis Clark
@@reptiles3244 I am aware
Yes there are rules for teachers at school but when a school goes out of hand, I believe teachers at that school have the right to go to extreme measures to benefit the school, keep good students safe and to help them learn better, preparing them to become great adults in the future contributing to society. It all begins at home and at school.
this really hits home for me, as this is exactly what my school is going through, it used to be a shining beacon of hope and prosperity for my city and the region of my state. As of today it is run down, kids openly disobey teachers and there are often school lockdowns because someone got into the school.
My middle school used to be like that back in the 80’s but now (middle schoolers vaping/ disobeying teachers/ illegal drugs/ etc. if you are wondering why I didn’t include school shootings because there hasn’t been school shootings in my school or county I live in Georgia btw Gwinnett county
@@moonlxghtdazess2430 there have been school shootings at my school but it has only been between the kids
I forgot to mention the extremely illegal drugs and use of guns in the school
@@-noplangaming-9268 I think something similar is Starting to happen at my school like literally people who goes to my school are posting themselfs consuming that green leaf thing and they are middle schoolers..
Literally my Texas school in the 90s without the shiny redemption.
Lucky enough to have had two teachers who played this for us while I was in school. A powerful movie and a deep dive into the culture. Great movie for youths.
What’s the name of the movie I’m going to try and buy it
@@nerdgeekcosplay909 Lean On Me
Face a wall, hellspawn.
Yoofs or yewfs.
@@mohammedabdulkader7422 thanks
One of the best movies I've ever watched. So touching and it shows how people can change lives if they can go beyond their comnort zone and care about what they are doing. I know in real life things are different and this changes don't appear from one day to the other, but it shows how dedication can change a whole school mind.
More schools need principals like Joe Clarke.
You mean turning the city into a cesspool 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Paterson NJ crime skyrocketed because of Joe. What happened to the expelled students? No school means free time to perfect crime skills
This was a fantastic movie. A classic and based ln a true story. Joe Clark must have been a real hero once he learned to listen to others views in forming and executing his plan with the passion he had.
He was cray!
its a true story ?
@@arpankumardas4221 yes
Joe Clark was a caring man who accomplished a lot in Paterson. He was also certifiable lol. However, that's what Paterson needed at the time.
My aunt was born in the late 70s. She made us watch this movie every Sunday. I now know the schools song. 😂😂😂 I know this movie line for line now.
The way a school fails first starts with the parents, than the teachers, than the kids. I don't expect a 12 year old to act like an adult, but I sure as hell expect the parents and teachers to act like adults, and to set ground rules.
This happens when woke people are in power and when parents are punished for trying to raise their children properly. You can't expect someone to act like an adult when he had been codled like a child his whole life.
@@fabiandialer1715 Not all woke parents are helicopter parents.
Teacher as the least to blame. They care and that's why they got into teaching. The parent's can't raise kids, and administration wants to keep kids in the classroom and not have discipline issues. So, the teachers hands are tied. As soon as you send a bad kid out of the room so the rest can learn administration blames the teacher for poor "classroom management." Mainly it's the parents, or lack of parenting that are to blame.
You can say all of that nonsense because OTHER school districts were NOT deliberately designed to fail to create a straight line from horrible education to horrible prisons...America deliberately designed the worse housing schools and jobs...TO MAKE BLACK PEOPLE A PERMANENT UNDERCLASS...to quote Joe Clarke.
Sooooo YOU give absolutely NO regard to the buildings, resources, security, home conditions and communities students not just came from but were designed to be in. Why are WHITE schools and colleges better equipped with whatever is necessary to create better outcomes? So blame the parents, who in most cases, may be the mother or grandmother who must work 2 or 3 jobs to keep the home going. It is certainly NOT accidental that the self styled greatest democracy and richest nation in the world, DOESN'T HAVE FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL.
One of the best inspirational movies. Sadly in reality many schools in the inner city still have problems, actually the school system has a lot of problems to deal with. Like it or not there will always be bullies in school. Also, there's problems on every side with students, teachers and parents. I remember when I was a kid that I did disorganized the school property and a teacher saw me and I was physically disciplined. It was a lesson I had a to learn and it make me think twice before doing something bad again. Nowadays kids get away with everything with no consequence. Also, there are some good and bad teachers. The good teachers don't have enough support and should be paid more, but that's my opinion.
Great movie. Definitely recommend watching it in full.
Joe is like the teacher that everyone hates but respects with all their soul
He respects them enough to risk them burning in an inferno. Padlocking emergency exits indeed. Cheers! :)
@@zapazap They we’re already at risk from their location, you really think you said something huh lol
@@relyk9157 They were already at risk, yes. But rell me please; does padlocking emergency doors not _increase_ their risk? Cheers! :-)
At risk when you consider that the school itself would've shut down, leaving many kids without an education. Besides, the likelihood of a fire randomly breaking out is nearly 0 if the facilities are maintained. Lastly, it's not too hard to say one of the problem kids would've set the school on fire if given enough time.
@@Zynderion117 Why would leaving the emergency doors unchained cause the school to be shutdown? Cheers! :)
Joe is probably the most chaotic good principal I’ve ever heard of.
ye he is a good principal :>
He’s crazy but he gives a damn about the kids.
This man is the definition of a Tyrant, Lawful Neutral or Lawful Good, but not Chaotic.
If you don't think there can be Chaotic aligned tyrants, the tanar'ri would like a word with you. @@AlyssMa7rin
Loved this movie. I always hated that mom who was more concerned with her kid getting expelled, and rightly so, over the other kids learning and being in a safe environment.
Great recap and movie. I saw this years ago.
Shows up to school board meetings to get the principal fired but could care less about your kid lol
Typical Momma Bear
Yeah lol they know that their kid is doing bad in school and is doing illegal stuff and the only thing they cared about is the principle expelling their kid
par for the course for thst demo 😉
"couldn't* care less" if she could care less, then that means she still cares.
@@guillermoelnino Which demographic? See plenty of your kind along the US-MEX border and in NM/TX causing a ruckus. Add East LA to that too.
Not all students need strict principals but there are a lot of kids in the world who need a principal like this.
I adored my strict principal and teachers I was a good student but those were the ones you can tell were truly passionate about their job and wanted to see you reach full potential. They were also funny and cool to be around when not teaching or having to deal with wayward students
you mean parents.
This movie is an absolute classic, love this movie and fantastic cast too.
0:05, finally now i know who Joe is.
As a kid who could pass the minimum basic skills test, let me do some math. The school had 3000 students 40% of the school was passing already. That's 1200 students. He threw out 300 kids who couldn't pass dropping his total student count to 2700. 1200 out of 2700 students is 45%. He upped the scores 5% just by throwing out the worst kids.
He didn't just throw out the kids that couldn't pass but those who had the worst influence on others...
Congratz you have figured out how high performing schools work.
And then he got a pass rate of > 70%, meaning at least 1890 kids. Eliminating the disruptions and bad influences increased the absolute number of kids who met the bar by over 50%.
Those 300 kids were creating an environment that was causing the teachers to struggle to teach the kids who did want to learn. The test scores went up at that school after Mister Clark expelled those kids who did not want to learn. they were disrupting order in the school. I am 79 years old, and I remember the situation because I followed the story from start to finish. It was not just one parent who sabotaged Joe Clark. Some kids had not attended class for three months and the parents of those kids complained that mister Clark was depriving their kids of getting an education. Most of those parents had never attended a PTA meeting in their lives and they were illiterate themselves. The white establishment wants to maintain an underclass to supply their businesses with a slave workforce. Walmart, Target, fast food joints, restaurants, pizza parlors, Amazon, and other businesses all have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
@@maxxmabemwe4859 I'm not arguing whether throwing those students out was the right move or not or whether it was moral or not. I'm just pointing out that in one move he increased his pass\fail rate by 5%. He achieved 15% of his goal (actually 16.16% of his goal) to improve the pass fail rate by 30%. If you followed the story closely it's not hard to know more of the actual details than I do. I was in elementary school in the Joe Clark days in Florida a state that was testing in bottom two in most criteria across the board from k through 12 and continues to rank in the bottom 5 almost 40 years later in every measurable way. 60 % of our high school "graduates" require remedial classes to attend our colleges. If I flip 3000 coins on a table, physics and statistics roughly 1500 will land heads 50% or 1500\3000. If I take away 300 of the coins that landed on tails. It becomes 1500 heads out of 2700. 1500\2700 or 55.55%. I didn't change physics or statistics just eliminated the total. Same 1500 heads as before. Again I'm not arguing right or wrong decision or fair or unfair or even moral and immoral.
The part where he congratulates Mrs Powers is the best, because you had no idea it was coming. He was marching down the the music room with Sams and the other boys, looking al pissed off that they weren't singing the school song he knew, and you're sure that Mrs Powers is about to get the ax. But instead he congratulates her for her dedication and spirit, and adopts her new version as official. It showed that he wasn't simply a hard ass, and that he valued his teachers more than they thought.
That part was one of my favorites too. 👍🏽👍🏽😊 You expected the worst to happen and then he makes her version of the school anthem the official version. 1💪🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That principal valued more than gold, my respect for him.
0:57 Dude that Mr. Rosenberg looks EXACTLY like Ken Rosenberg from GTA vice City, and he was a lawyer in the game as well!
Ok but why was leana so involved in the school when her child isn’t even in it anymore????
If only she was that involved before....
Cause she is a failed parent or has a bad kid and it reflects on her, many adults live vicariously through their children.
Because her character is a mammy Definition : Used to describe women who baby, coddle, and take care of men in any race or ethnicity. Usually used to describe black women since they are the biggest offenders.
She's in Bottman's payroll
It's crazy how they gave this one woman so much power just because it helped THEM. Not because they cared about anything she had to say
Behind every misbehaving kid is a parent making excuses for their behaviour.
Those are the worst types of parents in opinion
Probably those kinds of parents still babying their misbehaving kids and failed to raise them to be a good decent person.
Karens and Kevins in a Nutshell
Most of these bullies haven't been taught the right way
@@nakshatramusic21 you said a whole bunch of nothing,the coment above is clear enough,parents are the ones who you blame first them the kids you keep making excuses for shitty parents and their shitty kids,wich makes me belive you are either one of those,you can and have to blame them so they can maybe MAYBE change this whole caring bs only breeds more of those trash parents with trash kids you my friend is blind and soft
I grew up watching Lean On Me and it still touches my heart, even with this condensed summary of the film ❤
6:23 RIFF
What's so weird is that Leona put so much effort into getting him fired but not into her own children. SMH
It's stupid but people do it.
Karen moments
I’ve noticed that ignorant and uneducated people tend to blame everybody and everything for a situation, but never take responsibility for their own actions. Gabby Hanna, David Dobrik, and pretty much every Karen are great examples. *btw black women are generally the most highly educated group racial group
At least she did not padlock emergency exits. Cheers! :)
@@zapazap okay that was a bit drastic but funny we now want buzz doors so threats cannot enter the school which is why he locked the doors in the first place.
One of my most favorite all time films!! This movie introduced me to Morgan Freeman at a young age. Great redemption story for a community!!
You know if this guy was running schools no one would even know what a school shooting would be
Your pic is cute, how can I contact 😍
Morgan freeman was in wanted right?
Dam this movie kinda sucks
What's it called?
I taught at a school in remote Queensland with a high Indigenous population. Despite the small size of the school and town alot of kids only got to school because the school had a bus that they used everyday to pick students up. Behaviour was pretty bad with upper management (Principal and Deputy) unwilling to do anything that needed to be done. We had a really talented primary teacher (The school was P-12 as are all remote schools) who would often assume command when the Principal and Deptuty had to leave for conferences for multiple weeks at a time during the year. Those few weeks were bliss. Kids who needed to be suspended for their behaviour were. This got the remaining kids to pull their heads in and apply themselves and the kids who wanted to learn got to learn. Sadly despite all the progress it was always undone by the return of the Principal and the Deputy. The behaviour plus the extreme isolation (nearest "large" town of 3000 was 2-3 hours away) and lack of backbone from upper management meant that I suffered. And whilst it was a permanent 2 year position that would have meant I could transfer anywhere after that period of time I left after 1 year. It shattered my passion for teaching which didn't recover fully. It took 5 more years of teaching before I was able to get out.
I wish we had principals like him in the schools here in the Philippines. But the school management here (in public and private schools) are more concerned on how they can increase the school budget so that they can buy that new car and phone they've been wanting 🙄
Nice
Hear hear. That's kinda why most private schools in the Philippines kinda fare better than public ones...
Ngl public schools are a nightmare In the Philippines you would get bullied for speaking English in school or do or say say some stupid shit.
@@sonata8775 but the good thing is you're allowed to beat up the bully as long as nobody else knows🤫
My mother was in charge of the education system of my city. Similar story, when she arrived to the job everything was corrupted, everyone hated her for replacing their boss, the education statistics were in the floor. In a few months she managed to fix everything and made our city the number one in education statistics in the entire country. Everyone to this day love her. But she didn't do it in this violent confrontation way, she did in very small But super smart ways changing people little by little to create the bigger benefit. Someday I'll make the movie, her story is filled with lots of amazing stories, specially when you take into account that the narco used to be the maximum power in the state and apparently they knew her and leave her alone because she helped thousands of kids that no one else helped before.
Was the city Boulder,Colorado?
Can you tell me more about your mom. She sounds super cool and I would like to hear more stories
That’s amazing
@@PirateCat822 It was a city in Mexico in a narco state.
@@vienna-mf8xb There are a lot of cool little stories and anecdotes about her time working there. For example, the state where we live is extremely political when it comes to teachers, they are one of the main forces in elections. That's why she had lots of enemies that wanted her job. She had lots of traps that people gave her like sending her oficial papers to sign among the hundreds of papers she used to sign weekly that would make her look bad or risk losing her job with the help of the news media but she managed to avoid all those in very clever ways and specially with the help of secretaries that used to hate her but she made them her best friends later on. Schools used to be secuestred by corrupt parent organizations that used to steal from the school store, they used to block schools with chains demanding things and she found a way to make that stop forever. She had the press at the beginning against her, payed by corrupt powers but in the end some reporters saw the good she was doing over time and secretly told her they were paid to do some things but they would always try to help her or advice her so she could keep doing her job. And when you take into account that she had 4 kids and her husband, my father, used to beat us in very monstruos ways the story takes on to another level. My father didn't want her to study, to advance her level, so she used to wait until he was asleep to study, that's how she managed to get her education job. Just imagine waking up to ready 4 kids for school, cooking, ironing, then going to work as a teacher, then coming back home to cook again endure abuse and then waiting for your abusive husband to go to sleep to study and do homework in secret to get higher grades and job opportunities, sleeping a couple hours and doing everything again. They were both teachers but she was special, she got the highest scores in her exams and presented tesis that advanced the field. I have written little by little the stories for years in hopes of someday making a script for a movie. She is still alive and to this day every single teacher in the city knows her and the kids she helped years ago who are now adults still give her presents and recognize her work and the help she gave them to thrive regardless of their economical situation.
Never saw the movie because I just knew it would be an extreme roller coaster ride emotionally LOL This is the very best way to watch - as a recap!🙌
True story. Awesome story, movie and the message is incredible
Man if only teachers actually expelled the school bullies. I never understood why teachers turned a blind eye growing up on this issue.
If they did, PTA will on their knives to stab their honor, teaching and problems.
because like the one woman in this movie, parents can NEVER see the wrong their child did, even if their kids are beating people up or doing drugs at school etc, theyll just scream and cuss out the teachers and principle instead of taking responsibility and like the movie, try and get the teacher or whoever fired cause their kids a pos. so teachers cant do much
Because of Parents JUST like Leona Barret. (The shrew literally was never ostracized, we never even see her Son try to get back in. She is a shit parent that wants everyone to burn with her shitty actions.)
@@captainmycaptain8334 Hence why i argue those parents should go through similar shit as their kid's victims. Legit, watch it turn SO quickly.
Nowadays it's all about avoiding lawsuits and bad publicity
This was one of my childhood movies. I was only ten years old when I first watched it, and though some things flew over my head, I was still just thinking that that school needed a great big fire up until the last few acts of the movie because it was way too rotted from the inside, no matter how hard Morgan Freeman tried to gut the school of impurities. It also baffled me how the troublemakers would be so pissed off that they got the Big Expel and a literal stage exit. They no longer have to go to school. Shouldn't they be doing back flips of joy, or is it just a "turf" thing? Anywho, I thought the school needed a great big fire and that they needed to toss Leona in it. Because DAMN she made me mad. I'm an adult, and she makes me even angrier. XD But I must say, Joe Clark had some real Mt Everest sized stones of steel, because most people are not cut out for such a task.
What movie title
@@TheSlowestSlothss Lean on Me.
😂😂 Yep. Watched this movie when I was a kid too and my biggest take aways were I loved Morgan Freeman's character and I absolutely hated that Leona woman. 👀👎🏽👎🏽
The trouble makers being upset and trying to break back into school is an extremely accurate portrayal of what would happen. Misery loves company, and expelling them while they get to see all the other kids stay and make a legitimate shot at making the school better would enrage them to no end. Imagine the means for your entire existence and justification for existing, spreading misery, was suddenly ripped away from you. You'd be pissed!
hell yes. I have seen this nice film. In English and in Czech and I must say the dub was really good. TY for the recap.
Jermaine Huggy Hopkins - Thomas Sams Michael Best - Songbird Kenneth Kelly - Songbird Dwayne Jones - Songbird Anthony Fuller - Songbird Steve Capers Jr. - Songbird
Fun fact for those who don’t know, Fetty Wap used to attend this school and even filmed one of his music videos there. This is an an incredible movie that I strongly encourage everyone to see atleast once. There’s no better true story told than this one.
Every school needs a 'Joe'... although harsh and intense, he's the one that cares the most and is willing to take the heat in order to help the kids. Sadly in this day and age, his antics would be deemed as abusive and too hardcore.
Who is Joe? Edit, I mean I am Australian, so the significance of this principle is unknown to me, as I believe this is set in America
Every school does not need a Joe.
Joe would have been laughed out of my school. Then again we had 5% of the problems Joe did.
The first thing he did was dump 300 of the kids, and than told one to kill themself.
Schools are so under the government thumbs they can't do anything without asking permission first and it's not worth it because they're always denied. The government makes curriculums too. In Indiana Teachers aren't even allowed to protest. That's a freaking 1st ammendment right. People get BENT about the right to bear arms but don't care about the right to protest. IT IS RIDICULOUS
I remember watching this movie multiple times as a kids. Still as powerful as it was before.
This story brings me so much joy.
Although he was a bit harsh he genuinely cared about the students and helped them with their situations or at least offered support for them, he had the doors locked and chained for his students safety however he likely didnt take into account the fire safety code and if they had talked with him instead of trying to arrest him Im sure they could have come up with a solution that keeps his kids safe from people on the outside as well as from events that would require evacuation
One way doors that can only be opened from the inside and as an emergency with a special key from the outside.
@@fabiandialer1715 it said someone let him in from the inside. Special key could work tho.
in real life he was never arrested
@@wotterthose4511 that's criminal itself
We need more Joe Clark's in this world. He wasn't perfect. But he got shit done.
Sure did!!💯💯
I must agree. His ways may have been unorthodox, but schools like that need some heavy-duty industrial cleaner, the big guns, and no kid gloves. Because a spritz of water, a cap gun, and Mickey Mouse gloves just weren't gonna cut it.
A principle like this would not work in Real Life USA. There is always at least one asshole who can easily buy or steal a gun anywhere and start murdering teachers. Take away all guns, fu** the 2nd ame.., defund the police and teachers can finally get rough on rowdies and bulies without the fear getting shoot one day.
Need to act more like him not have more, 1 to start 1,000
He actually didn't. The school did not improve over his tenure and was taken over by the state as a result. Expelling a large number of students increased crime in the area. His actions have been regarded as a failure over the long term.
that movie is a powerful one, Loved it.
My experience in school is if you get bullied, it's your fault. Teachers hold special meetings with you, bullies don't get special meetings. You'll get thrown into special programs, bullies don't get special programs, bullies can literally destroy your homework, that's your fault and you fail the homework. Literally happened this way for me growing up and that was the start of my life troubles, the same school district wonders why they can't pass levies either and hasn't passed more than one levy in something like 20+ years last I checked, that's not because the staff at schools is terrible though, people are ok with that because it's trash and people like trash, it's that the school administration takes the money and doesn't put it back into schools, but instead, their wallets.
As a recently retired teacher…I tell ya, I’d have worked for THIS Principal any day!
People don't know the reality of what happened with Joe Clark. He was a good principal before the movie, but he let fame get to his head, and was often out on the road promoting the film after it came out rather than continue being a principal at the school. People complained about this, and at one point a horribly raunchy performance involving only slightly dressed professional music/dance performers was done at the school auditorium. Clark, out on the road again, only stated that those in opposition were "prudes". I don't quite remember but I believe he was let go over this incident. Lowered my support for the man considerably.
That's interesting. Even without knowing that it doesn't take much to realize this movie is fantasy. Just like Dangerous Minds. It's not that easy to turn kids around, if ever.
Im sure your lack of support was devastating for him 😂
Nah just the way he acts in the movie shows hes a POS. F him.
Meu Mestre Minha Vida as known here in Brazil. Used to watch this movies at afternoons. Great movie. 👏👏👏
What I saw while actually attending an inner-city school, the number 1 problem is the schoolwork is not applicable to many things students will encounter after reaching adulthood. If you ever listened to the inner city students and tried to understand what their frustrations are, you'd hear they have a bunch of teachers who don't teach, so that's why they act up. What that means is the public school system regurgitates tidbits of mostly useless factoids that are sure to be forgotten. What has schooling become other than a mandatory daycare? No wonder school sucks, the teachers are made useless! Yeah, this movie is idyllic, but it resonates with the frustrations many people had and *still have* TO THIS DAY, with government meddling in the school curriculum, trying to shovel-in stupid one-off programs rather than teach skills students need and want.
Well my father was a teacher in inner city schools charter schools and public schools and the number one issue all teachers have is lack of community support from parents. You have students who have issues from home that come to school and don’t respect authority or want to learn adding more stress on teachers who have to play disciplinarian there’s principals and school boards who never dealt with the classroom running schools with no regards to the needs of teacher who thoroughly care for the students and the parents are just like the mother. So who would feel defeated and do bare minimum when you are the most essential employee in the country to educate and uplift the next generation while being attacked by wayward children because their home life is trash, the parents who don’t take accountability for their kids or the trash environment they create or the higher ups who aren’t qualified for the position? Those kids are a product of their environment it’s not the teacher fault. They fire teachers who won’t stick to ridiculous courses because they know every child doesn’t learn the same and they cram children in to squeeze out as much as possible while cutting programs like the arts so their pockets can get fatter and guess who suffer, the kids who already have stresses from home and the underpaid teachers. I went to a suburban diverse school. And I can assure you there was a drastic difference all because of community support! Parents and teachers have to come together.
@@babyt556A lotta inner-city people are poor and work a lot, draining them of time to spend with their kids.
Too many excuses. It does start at home. Content being irrelevant in their eyes is no reason to be rude, disrespectful, and out of control. That's always used as the scapegoat when really the kids just love being rude and disrespectful.
This movie moved me so much. If there's no one stood up for this youth imagine what kind of life they'll have ahead like just being criminals, robbers or cancelled people/garbage to society.
whats the movie name?
What’s the movie name?
@@eljhin1 Lean on me
Has kid who disrupts and causes issues. Gets mad about the kid being expelled for being disruptful and causing issues.
And all single moms who are bad parents have the same mindset
I saw it in the theater when it was new. One of the most memorable films I have ever seen, just excellent.
I saw this movie, great I was in tears and laughing for students and principal, he was "the man", he saved the school no matter what. 🇺🇸 ❤️
3:10 Homelander voice: I’m not suggesting. JUMP
I remember moving from NYC to the suburbs of Pennsylvania and the kids thought that the movie was exaggerating. I was like nope that's how high school and middle school s were.
shit wtf schools you went to. My schools werent like this in the 2000s.
@@TheKillaShow Private school
@@UnseenHitman-1932 if you went to a private school that was THAT run down, your family got scammed.
@@TheKillaShow It isn't that bad tho,only the other kids are beating themselves up
@@TheKillaShow Also my parentes were not scammed,It's just the average Brazilian private school.
I got detention for standing up to a bully.
‘ I was 13 years old when this movie came out back in March 1989 . Great movie 👍🏼 Great message *LEAN ON ME* *( March 1989 )*
At first glance I thought it was horrible to get rid of all the bad kids without trying to give them a chance, but then I realised they've already had their chances and should have been expelled earlier
My thing is that the teachers were demanding respect when the whole time they had been failing up to this point. These movies make it out like only one teacher can save the school but the other teachers are just pissed because they aren't the one. This school was decent 20 years ago, and it takes a lot of little compromises that leads to it to end up the way it did. All of the staff had a hand in that. It took 1 staff member to change things for the better, but it takes all the staff to keep things that way.
Yes don’t forgot parents also accountable , a school is a community !!
Rather a lot of little compromises, budget cuts is a sure way to school decay.
Thank you and God bless.
This is such an awesome movie. Great characters. Very well written story line.
"expelled 300 students to save 2700" nice quote
3:32 I like how back then, this was considered a poor choice of clothes, whereas nowadays, everyone pretty much dresses like that
I grew up in the hood in a shit hole town. It took me a while to realize how important those teachers were in my life. Now that im grown and i have younger family members that go to those schools, seeing the transformation from an old building to new clean facilities is crazy but I know it was thanks to the teachers that pushed everyone to get the schools from low rated D to A rated school. Still remember they called us the dream team since we were the class to start it all. I donate every year and a lot of those teachers were at our HS graduation. Which was out of town since it was a small town we didnt have a HS. And now they're building a highschool in our growing town. It was all thanks to the faculty that help push and lift up generations of families
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL! I have a very low suspense threshold. I need to know exactly what happens before I watch a movie. I have issues. From now on I will come to this channel when someone suggests a movie to me. You know how bad people are at describing a movie they like.
5:10 Bro that is a massive fire safety violation. With exactly this line of choice hundreds have died before.
It's better then having kids with knifes and guns entering the school
@@anarubi4537What if they are already in the school?
We can't handle a single kid in our house....respect to those teachers who spend their entire lives to light up the ways their students ❤👌👍
90% of time bad kids are the result of bad parenting, and alot of time those parents blame everyone but themselves.
Indeed they should get the Asian belt .
The biggest impact for me was getting rid of all the trouble makers. I have had arguments with educators because they told me you cant expel the kids because the parents work and who would watch them. I dont care about a trouble maker, it is the rest of the children that are important. Universities need to learn this lesson too, expel trouble makers and you have less trouble.
"They used to call me _Crazy Joe._ Well, now they can call me *Batman!"* -Mr. Clark
Can't do this anymore today. Every kid is precious cause their parent, doctor and state law says so otherwise.
Teachers used to whoop me💀y’all should be happy
Bring back paddling!
@@d3stello157 When did people stop rowing boats?
They are important and should be treated as such. Which means restructuring our failing systems to better support their needs and helping them as individuals.
@@d3stello157 right, because beating children won’t produce more ignorant fearful idiots. We have enough boomers, thank you.
Imagine how many kids would feel safe and happy in school if even 1 teacher took bullying seriously.
This makes me kinda sad since I dropped out of high school freshman year and chose to do homeschooling instead just because I kept getting bullied by my best friends friends… it sucked! I was told to kms with a knife, that I was a bad influence on my best friend and that I was ruining their “group” so they’d treat me like trash everyday, got to the point to where I’d cry once I got home and couldn’t take it anymore so I just left… part of me wishes I wasn’t a little b***h and stayed but I got to finish school before anyone else and focus on myself! After they grew up they ended up messaging me apologizing saying they felt horrible about everything so we were good and actually hung out awhile… but in the end they avoided me, alot of drama went down & we haven’t spoke since.. I wanna do a story time on my channel soon because it’s actually a crazy story.. lol
This was a classic movie, and you never hear much about it. When lists are published about great movies, movies everyone should see in their lifetime, and movies that made people sit and think, Lean On Me is one that should be included. Sadly, I have never seen it mentioned. Too bad, because I think this is a great example of the state of our inner city schools. Be the change parents, make the difference.