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The Influence of a Non-Traditional High School Chief
Joe Clark was a non-traditional high school principal whose unusual way of enforcing rules became the subject of a 1989 Hollywood movie.
Clark died late last year at the age of 82. He gained national attention for his leadership at Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey.
"You are not inferior," is what Clark would often tell his students. Many of the Eastside students were African American or Latino. They grew up in a difficult environment. Many of the students who attended his school faced violence, crime, drugs and troubled family life.
Clark believed that students had to be shocked often to understand the influences that could prevent them from succeeding in school and in life.
In Clark's first days of working at Eastside High School, he expelled 300 students for fighting, destroying school property, abusing teachers and drug possession. The students who remained at school believed that higher expectations were being placed on them. They felt more pressure to perform better.
Before becoming an educator, Clark served in the U.S. Army Reserve. His experience might have influenced how he supervised his school. He was known to walk around with a bullhorn and a baseball bat. Some praised his efforts at discipline while others criticized his methods.
President Ronald Reagan offered Clark a White House policy adviser position after his success at the high school.
In 1989, actor Morgan Freeman played Clark in the movie "Lean on Me." That movie was based on Clark's experiences at Eastside High School. "Joe was a father figure to school kids," Freeman said.
"He was the best of the best in terms of education."
Not everyone supported his methods. One teacher, who spoke to National Public Radio, or NPR, in 1988, said his methods were more like being in a labor camp than a public high school.
NPR recently spoke to Thomas McEntyre who said he was one of Joe Clark's former students. McEntyre said, "I never really got a chance to...thank him. We are your product. You did not fail us. No matter if you kicked me out, you did not fail me. You bettered me," he said.
After he retired from Eastside in 1989, Clark worked for six years as the director of a detention center for young people in Newark, New Jersey. He also wrote a book called "Laying Down the Law: Joe Clark's Strategy for Saving Our Schools." He described how he managed to turn Eastside High from a failing school into a success.
Clark was born in Rochelle, Georgia on May 8, 1938. His family moved north to Newark when he was six years old.
I'm Armen Kassabian.
重点解析
重点讲解：
1. grow up 成长；长大成人；
Children grow up so fast these days.
如今孩子们长得真快。
2. succeed in 在……成功；取得成功；
Some people will succeed in their efforts to stop smoking.
一些人经过努力可以成功戒烟。
3. be based on 根据；基于；
This effort must be based on performance.
这一努力必须基于实际行动。
4. manage to 达成；设法完成；
If you can manage to get two tickets that's better still.
要是你能设法弄到两张票，那就更好了。
参考译文
一位非传统高中校长的影响
乔·克拉克是一位非传统的高中校长，他独特的执行规则的方式成为1989年好莱坞电影的主题。
克拉克去年年底去世，享年82岁。他在新泽西州佩特森的东区高中的领导能力赢得了全美的关注。
克拉克经常对他的学生说：“你并不低人一等。”。许多东区的学生是非裔美国人或拉丁美洲人，他们在艰苦的环境中长大。许多在他学校上学的学生面临着暴力、犯罪、毒品和家庭问题。
克拉克认为，要让学生们经常感到震惊，才能理解阻碍他们在学校和生活中取得成功的各种影响。
克拉克在东区高中工作的头几天，就因为打架、毁坏学校财产、虐待教师和持有毒品开除了300名学生。留在学校的学生认为，他们被寄予更高的期望，感到更大的压力，要去表现得更好。
克拉克成为一名教育工作者之前，曾在美国陆军预备役服役。他的经历可能影响了他管理学校的方式，大家都知道他拿着扩音器和棒球棒到处走动，一些人赞扬他在整顿纪律方面做出的努力，而另一些人则批评他的方法。
克拉克在高中取得成功后，里根总统向他提供了一个在白宫出任政策顾问的职位。
1989年，演员摩根·弗里曼在电影《铁腕校长》（Lean on Me）中扮演克拉克，电影根据克拉克在东区高中的经历所改编，“对于学校里孩子们来说，乔是一位父亲型的人物，”弗里曼说。
“他在教育方面出类拔萃。”
不是每个人都支持他的方法。一位1988年接受国家公共广播电台（NPR）采访的教师说，他的方法更像是用在劳改所里，而不是用于公立高中。
NPR最近采访了托马斯·麦肯太尔，麦肯太尔说他曾是乔克拉克以前的学生。麦肯太尔说：“我从来没有机会去感谢他。我们都受到你的教育方法的影响，你没让我们失望。不管你是否把我开除，你都没让我失望，你让我变得更好，”他说。
1989年克拉克从东区高中退休后，在新泽西州纽瓦克的一个青少年拘留中心当了六年主任。他还撰写了一本名为《制定法律：乔·克拉克拯救我们学校的策略》的书，描写了他是如何将东区高中从失败转向成功。
克拉克1938年5月8日出生于佐治亚州的罗谢尔，他六岁时全家搬到纽瓦克。
阿门·卡萨比安报道。
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