Critique

Prologue

1. Joe Clark, a former Army drill instructor, a tough and radical disciplinarian, an arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic Eastside high school in Paterson, New Jersey to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence and urban despair, from which he had earlier been fired due to the unexpected school board budget cuts, Mr. Clark is forced to make decisions about his future at Eastside High. He leaves and goes to an elementary school. Nobody thinks he will last there. But, Joe isn't going to take that and will try his best to improve that school. He is an arrogant, unorthodox, assertive, strong willed teacher who takes pride in his work and his school.

2. He uses tough discipline as a means of changing Eastside High School. He is a tough and radical disciplinarian, hard-nosed and tough love educator.

3. He will turn this crime, drug, and graffiti infested school around completely, in just one year time. Clark must bring peace and order to his former school and must also bring up the learning level of the students so they can pass the state's "minimum basic skills test". When he arrives, he shakes things up by reassigning teachers and calling all of them incompetent. To reform his former school, he expels 300 minority students who he claims "educationally hopeless underachievers, parasites, hoodlums and drug pushers. Besides the changes in security, he directs a change in attitude among his students. He wants his student to take pride in their school, in themselves and in their education.

State take-over

1. A school in Paterson, New Jersey has a less than average basic skills test score, it faces the possibility of being taken over by the state.

2. When the mayor asks the school superintendent for help, he suggests that they appoint the controversial Joe Clark as the school principal. Clark begrudgingly agrees.

3. Yes, he did change, for an extraordinary situation calls for an extraordinary solution. He became tough and radical disciplinarian. He decides to use tough discipline as a means of changing Eastside High School, whose solution had a name: Principal "Crazy Joe" Clark. With a bullhorn in one hand and a baseball bat in the other.

Meeting the faculty

1. He acts as a tough-as-nails principal who became a national hero and symbol for tough-love educator. He shakes things up by reassigning teachers and calling all of them incompetent.

2. He must know the basic information of every