Lean On Me

" His absurd manners were strongly disliked by his fellow colleagues. His wife left him and the one friend he had was his reflective signs of horrendous behavior. He liked to be known as "HNIC" the "head nigger in charge. It is metaphoric of the change that East Side undergoes. I would say East Side is portrayed as a rundown and scary learning high school. For one person, set alone to lead and turn the school around in under a year, like Joe Clark does, is unimaginable and almost impossible. He insulted teachers in front of the students and fired them when they did comply with his harsh rules. The first disturbing aspect of this movie is Joe Clark’s personality; although he changes around the school, he does it in a bizarre and vicious manner. He walked around the school with a baseball bat, rather than a clipboard or briefcase. After there is a time change from the 60s to the 80s, East Side transformed from a nice, well-kept, and clean school to a graffiti filled, prison like, school that resembles an alleyway, not a high school. As they tune up the song, they tune up the school. Another bizarre aspect of the movie is how the director, portrays East Side High. The fear that he earned is more prevalent than the respect that the students and teachers have for him.

Next, the school song was an important symbol throughout the movie.