![]() He institutes a tutorial program to strengthen academic skills and encourages remedial reading courses on Saturdays which parents may attend alongside their children. Clark confronts his staff for their failure to educate their students and to prepare them for the world. Unfortunately, a practice basic skills test fails to garner enough passing students. Clark also reunites one of his old elementary students, Kaneesha Carter ( Karen Malina White), with her estranged mother. ![]() Thomas Sams ( Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins), a student expelled for crack use, pleads to be allowed to return to school and gradually reforms. Darnell.Ĭlark's actions begin to have a positive effect on his students. ![]() Napier sets Clark straight over these incidents and lectures him to start being a team player Clark subsequently re-instates Mr. Elliot ( Robin Bartlett), whom Clark fires for being insubordinate after he cancels a pre-planned choral event, the school's upcoming annual Lincoln Center concert. Darnell ( Michael Beach), whom Clark suspends for picking up a piece of trash during a recital of the school song, and choir teacher Mrs. Clark's radicalism causes him to come into conflict with members of the faculty, particularly English teacher Mr. Some parents react strongly to these measures, including Leonna Barrett ( Lynne Thigpen), mother of one of the expelled students, who presses the mayor to oust Clark. When one of the expelled students is found beating up another student, Clark orders the doors of the school chained shut during school hours since funds are insufficient to purchase security doors. Reluctantly, the mayor hires Clark.Ĭlark's immediate radical changes include expelling 300 students identified as drug dealers or abusers and troublemakers, instituting programs to improve school spirit including painting over graffiti-covered walls, and requiring students to learn the school song, and be punished if they cannot sing it on demand. ![]() Frank Napier ( Robert Guillaume), who suggests the school hire elementary school principal Joe Clark, aka "Crazy Joe" ( Morgan Freeman), a former teacher at Eastside High, as the new principal. He consults with school superintendent Dr. Mayor Bottman ( Alan North) learns that the school will be turned over to state administration unless 75% of the students can pass the minimum basic skills test. The majority of students cannot pass basic skills testing, and even the teachers are not safe from gang violence. By 1987, the once successful Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, has deteriorated due to drugs and crime. ![]()
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