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Sorry, people outside of Jersey might not know who Joe Clark is. Joe Clark was the principal at Eastside High School in Patterson NJ. He took no crap, installed discipline in his students and turned the school around from being a riddled with crime to significantly raising test scores.

The movie Lean On Me was about Clark. With Morgan Freeman playing Clark, the movie was more about activism then what he really did.

I do recall reading about him. I wish that someone like him would stand up and do the right thing in the schools of Chicago. But “the Mare, Rahm Emanuel,” won't allow the police to do their jobs and stop the thugging and the violence in the schools...Rahm will not go against the parent/s of these thugs and lose their votes. Rahm’s voting base is in the black neighborhoods of the south and west sides of Chicago. Though the Chicago Teacher's Union is socialist based, the head of the union does butt heads with rahm, but it seems that the bottom line is if you teach in a Chicago school, you keep your mouth shut, do your job..do what your’re told and go along to get along. For all the whining by Rahm Emanuel about the killings, thugging and violence in Chicago and, in particular the schools, it's just for show and it means nothing..just ask the Chicago cops whose hands are tied at every turn. It is all for the damn vote, and Rahm Emanuel means to keep it that way. There will be no hero's allowed in the Chicago Public Schools, though I'm sure there are some principals who are making some effort, but without the support of Rahm Emanuel, and so the schools continue to fail...by design. they continue to fail. I might add that the Chicago aldermen on the south and west sides of Chicago are socialist and/or corrupt...the store front “revruns” are nothing more than money laundering sources for the gangs, and they get their cut and turn their backs on their flock. But, of course, they along with Rahm Emanuel are constantly demanding more money for the schools, it's “for the children,” you know. But the money never makes it to the schools and the “children.” It goes to payoffs and pet projects of Emanuel, and it also greases the palms of certain aldermen. socilialist thieves, liars and all corrupt...by design, and for as long as I can remember. Chicago isn't called Shitcago for nothing.