The Movie, Lean On Me Opens Up To Eastside High School

In Chapter 5 Mike Rose starts working with the Urban Teacher Corps in East Los Angeles. Of all the chapters I read from this book, I found chapter 5 as one of my favorites. Rose provides us with a look into the academic and personal lives of his students. He integrates pictures and music with his teaching methodology to get his kids to think creatively. And of course, it helps him to understand their lives and complications better. I really enjoyed reading about his idea of taking photos of the kids and let them write about what they see in those photos. Their answers show how they see life. I think Rose tries to show us that education is more complicated than just teaching the syllabus. He seems to be more enduring with his student’s like

When Mr. Clark originally taught at Eastside High School, the culture seemed very competitive and full of high standards. The students seemed very eager to learn and at a pretty high level for their age. Twenty years later, the culture flips dramatically. The school quickly goes from pristine to a graffiti-infested playground. The teachers are the prey and the students (mainly the ‘hoodlums’) pretty much do as they please. Education is a small goal for any of the students, and the students that do want to do well fear those “hoodlums.” Mr. Clark identifies this immediately when returning to Eastside High. During his first assembly, Mr. Clark let the entire school know that he was the HNIC. He gathered up all the trouble makers and sent them home, expelling them from school. Most were drug dealers, 5th year students, or drug abusers that were dulling the spark of the other students.

The students all took a practice test and only thirty-three percent of the students have passed and the states minimum average is seventy-five percent. Throughout the school year, the students work effortlessly with Mr. Clark along with their school teachers prepare for the real test. Mr. Clark’s crazy and wild antics start to get to the students and they begin to respect him even more for it. They begin to see that he is only doing this with all of their best interests in mind. One of the students who was expelled’s mother complained about the way Mr. Clark ran things at his school and got the mayor involved. After Mr. Clark is found with the chains on the door, which is illegal and a fire safety hazard, and was arrested. All of the students came down to the Board of Education in Paterson and basically protested and ranted on how they wanted Mr. Clark to be released and return to his duties as principal. Eastside High’s assistant principal Mrs. Barrett claims that Mr. Clark was not the right choice to serve as principal of Eastside. But the students all say in rebuttal how Mr. Clark cares for them like no other and how he has done so much good for them that they will not accept anyone besides Mr. Clark. Soon after, Mr. Clark was released and good news was received. More than enough students

Imagine trying to fix a failing school rife with drugs, crime, violence, and failing grades. Some of the students can’t even read, and most will end up dropping out. That is what the film Lean on Me is about. A former teacher at a high school, Joe Clark, is told to go and fix Eastside High, where more than half the students do not even meet basic skills, or the state will take over the school. When he takes over, he immediately begins several changes, imposing strict authority in the halls, improving the quality of education, and expelling drug dealers or failing students. Clark also many times encourages students and staff that hard work are needed for success. In Lean on me, Joe Clark persuades the student and staff to work hard using ethos, pathos, and logos.

They were to ignore him when acted out or became disruptive and praise him when he behaved in an acceptable manner. In a sense, this made every one of the kids in his class one of Sean’s teachers. They were forced to accept that Sean could get away with doing things that would have landed them in the principal’s office. Kathy would have to spend significant amounts of extra time working with Sean when teaching him how to do something the other children had learned in five minutes two weeks ago. The academic gap between Sean and the rest of his classmates continued to widen as the school year continued.

In addition, Clark was able to challenge the white power structure that was essentially in charge of the city in order to reach the common goal of the school for both its teachers and students. In the movie, he demonstrates a ruthless but well-meaning manner of discipline which earned him both respect and disdain from other administrators who were familiar with his leadership style. Clark 's leadership style was tough, but it was also combined with a degree of charm at times that enabled him to attract fierce loyalty from his students. They referred to him as "Crazy Joe" at times, but in several instances students came to him for help; for example, in the film, a Latino girl approaches to whisper to Clark that she needs a winter coat, and the principal promises to get her one, as he writes her name down on a small memo pad.

There were many diverse aspects to this book. Most of this book is a recall from either the main character, or one of his students. This book is intended to open people’s eyes to see that in order to change the world we must first change ourselves. Being able to go through this story and see the mistakes, and the good decisions, teachers in Michie’s life have made, has taught me that the best way to teach is through love, justice, cultural empathy and imagination. Some of the points brought up in this book include the positive and negative sides of physical contact with a student, classification/stereotyping, race, gangs, police brutality/lack of justice, and children not being able to escape peer pressure.

Joe Clark used harsh and unconventional methods when dealing with problems associated within the school. Joe Clark does not listen to what others have to say and follows his own heart. Some might say that Joe Clark’s ways were harsh by stating that he fired

When the Supreme Court ruled that nine teenagers would be chosen to integrate LIttle Rock’s Central High School, the citizens of Little Rock responded in many different ways. Most of the students at Central High School were very rude to the nine students and very few were kind to them. In the book there were many instances were the students were rude but one example was on page 72 when the nine students walked in the school most students were yelling very rude things to them.

On the bus ride back to the Donnelly’s house, the bus driver, Mr.Rodrigo, all of the sudden had stood up from the driver’s seat and fell over on to the ground. Cap had taken the situation into his own hands and heroically jumped into action and drove the bus to the hospital and saved Mr.Rodrigo’s life from a heart attack, and saved everyone on the bus from getting into an accident. Once again Cap was cuffed, but luckily Mrs.Donnelly was there to pick him up, making sure Cap didn’t get cuffed again. The next day everyone referred to Cap as a “hero” for his action of saving Mr.Rodrigo. Everyone wanted to hang out with him now! Students started to join him for his morning tai chi routine! One morning, most of the eighth grade accompanied Cap and Hugh in tie-dying any white stuff they had! The next few days were absolute chaos because Cap gave all of the money for the Halloween Dance to charity, when that happened Naomi kissed Cap because she thought he was a special, amazing,wonderful person, without realizing without the money for the dance there was no dance. Cap was rising to the face of popularity at Claverage Middle School! Cap replaced Zach at his lunch table in the cafeteria! That made Zach hungry for revenge. Hugh was also very upset about Cap irresponsibly spending all of the money for the dance and everyone thanking him for it. Zach was ready to give Cap the revenge he thought he

They talked about pay and how that isn’t the big issue while the biggest issue is getting the students there on a saturday, a day they have off. Mr. Clark showed the students that race isn’t a factor of why someone is smart he showed that everyone is the same and no one is above or below. At the start of the Movie Mr.Clark the new principle introduced himself to his new students in an interesting way, he was able to connect with the students in many different ways. Mr. Clark invited old students that never graduated high school and show the students how they became druggies and told the students that they had a choice of how they want to live their

Through out the movie you see difficulties that the students are trying to finally fit to be part of the system but they still may not be accepted because of their classes. With low achieving school, have a suspicious amount of high test scores the reliability and dependability are questioned. Conflict theory is used that the struggle in society and schools between the haves and have nots. For example, not funding for computer, not having computers, no air conditioning for summer and less opportunities for students in general. The school is portrayed as a place where students do not want to be or care about being in school. The staff don’t care about the students especially they gave up on them. There is a quote that I got from the movie, that Mr. Escalante was asking the math department for calculus

At the beginning of the book, Rose mentioned many students who suffered school for many reasons. He mentioned Laura, who took his English’s class four times and dropped it because of the fear of making mistakes. Laura’s story showed that teachers didn’t try hard enough to help students overcomes their fear, instead they let them suffered. He also mentioned Bobby, he was a star during high school but felt lost when he came to college. He wasn’t prepared well enough for college and couldn’t complete any of his assignment. The lack of preparation from his high school teachers had failed him. The score that show on Laura’s and Bobby’s test had isolated them from their classmates. The teachers didn’t try to figure out what happened to these kids, instead, they focus on the test score, and removed these kids from their classroom, put them

The chapter opens with a case—Robert F. Kennedy High School—depicting the many problems facing David King, the new principal of a deeply troubled urban high school. A school that opened with high hopes only a few years ago now finds itself mired in conflict and dissatisfaction. King’s first meeting with his new administrative staff produces a blow-up in which a male housemaster physically threatens the chair of the English department. By the end of the case, the situation feels overwhelming. Is there hope? The authors follow

6.After the Nelson house was burnt down, because of Chidester Gang, Lisa and Todd take refuge at Jill’s orphanage. She decided that they would be more likely to win in battles if they didn’t have to fight at all, just defend. Lisa thought that an abandoned high school, Glenbard would be the perfect place and so she tells the captains. The Grand Avenue citizens moved to the high school one night secretly so no one would know. They had classes, jobs and dorms for every child family who lived under a constitution of freedom.