Lean on me Essay
Crazy Joe, the man who had changed the lives of both the students and the teachers of Eastside High School against all odds. Chaining up doors, calling out teachers, and show both teachers and students who’s in charge, even though he uses military-like teaching methods, Joe Clark was able to flip the school upside down transforming both students and staff into people to look up to. On arriving at the school Joe Clark had found out that this school was in dire need of change from both the students and staff in which he had decided to use unorthodox methods to change the school. Being set on changing East Side High School from a school full of drug dealers and miscreants, Joe Clark had used methods of discipline in the right way resulting in a better and cleaner school.
By showing his authority, through methods of discipline, he shown the students of Eastside High who’s in charge, Mr. Clark’s methods may be a little unorthodox but they do work. By using his methods of discipline, he was able to show the students who’s in charge and what he can do to either help or hinder them. As was shown in the movie the first way he had shown what he could do was by expelling all of the drug dealing and misbehaving students. From the evidence shown, Joe Clark was a highly controversial principle of Eastside High; walking through the halls, bullhorn and bat in hand driving away the drug dealers and thugs of the school, as well as suspending over 300 students on his first day at the school. What the evidence shown here is showing that even on his first day of work at the school he had brought his A-game getting rid of all students who wouldn’t help the other students.
Though Joe Clark’s methods may be unorthodox they’ve pared a n...
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...r, from an old run down school to a top notch school. All of the mean and downright outrageous methods were all done for the better of the school, all of the name calling, unorthodox methods, and puffing of his chest to show who’s boss, all for the better of the school and to help the students.
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