[ti:The Influence of a Non-Traditional High School Chief] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]Joe Clark was a non-traditional high school principal [00:03.88]whose unusual way of enforcing rules [00:06.92]became the subject of a 1989 Hollywood movie. [00:11.80]Clark died late last year at the age of 82. [00:17.00]He gained national attention for his leadership [00:20.12]at Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. [00:24.76]"You are not inferior," is what Clark would often tell his students. [00:29.28]Many of the Eastside students were African American or Latino. [00:34.64]They grew up in a difficult environment. [00:37.64]Many of the students who attended his school [00:41.32]faced violence, crime, drugs and troubled family life. [00:47.56]Clark believed that students had to be shocked [00:50.48]often to understand the influences [00:53.24]that could prevent them from succeeding in school and in life. [00:58.48]In Clark's first days of working at Eastside High School, [01:01.84]he expelled 300 students for fighting, destroying school property, [01:06.68]abusing teachers and drug possession. [01:10.56]The students who remained at school [01:12.56]believed that higher expectations were being placed on them. [01:17.16]They felt more pressure to perform better. [01:20.48]Before becoming an educator, Clark served in the U.S. Army Reserve. [01:26.40]His experience might have influenced how he supervised his school. [01:31.60]He was known to walk around with a bullhorn and a baseball bat. [01:35.96]Some praised his efforts at discipline while others criticized his methods. [01:41.84]President Ronald Reagan offered Clark a White House policy adviser position [01:47.84]after his success at the high school. [01:51.32]In 1989, actor Morgan Freeman played Clark in the movie "Lean on Me." [01:58.16]That movie was based on Clark's experiences at Eastside High School. [02:03.48]"Joe was a father figure to school kids," Freeman said. [02:07.40]"He was the best of the best in terms of education." [02:12.04]Not everyone supported his methods. [02:14.96]One teacher, who spoke to National Public Radio, or NPR, in 1988, [02:20.52]said his methods were more like being in a labor camp [02:23.64]than a public high school. [02:26.76]NPR recently spoke to Thomas McEntyre [02:30.64]who said he was one of Joe Clark's former students. [02:34.12]McEntyre said, "I never really got a chance to...thank him. [02:38.12]We are your product. You did not fail us. [02:41.56]No matter if you kicked me out, you did not fail me. [02:45.04]You bettered me," he said. [02:48.44]After he retired from Eastside in 1989, [02:51.88]Clark worked for six years as the director of a detention center [02:55.68]for young people in Newark, New Jersey. [02:59.36]He also wrote a book called "Laying Down the Law: [03:02.56]Joe Clark's Strategy for Saving Our Schools." [03:06.56]He described how he managed to turn Eastside High [03:09.88]from a failing school into a success. [03:12.68]Clark was born in Rochelle, Georgia on May 8, 1938. [03:18.40]His family moved north to Newark when he was six years old. [03:23.56]I'm Armen Kassabian. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM