A Change on Education for a Better Society

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Someone who is very determined and ready to make a change for the better is the definition of Joe Clark. As he becomes the principle of the school, he also becomes a father figure and also a very important person to some individuals. Being a forceful principal he is able to make decisions which are often for the better of everyone. He really does make a change to the school and to the people with the discipline he has which also results in extreme actions. As he wanted to make the school a better place, Joe Clark influenced staff and students of the school, treated staff and students the same way and also made extreme actions which resulted in consequences. With the changing of the school, Joe Clark makes very extreme decisions in making the school a better place reminding one that these decisions are what made the school a better and safer place.

As Joe Clark becomes the principle of the school, he notices that there is a lot to be changed. He is a very forceful principle who makes extreme actions on wanting East Side High School to be a better and safer school. As making the school a better place, he was forced to do many things which some students may not have wanted to happen. The main extreme action he took was explosion for those students who he thought were making the school worse than it already was. In the movie Joe Clark said “I want all of you to take a good look at these people on the risers behind me. These people have been here roughly five years, and done absolutely nothing. These people are drug dealers and drug users. They have taken up space. They have disrupted this school. They have harassed your teachers. And they have intimidated you. Well, times are about to change”. He knew that for a better change he wou...

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...ents, the environment of the school started to change which had the end result of a better school.

Throughout the movie, the decisions that Joe Clark made were extreme decisions but only to make East Side High a better place. His purpose was to ensure that students of East Side High passed their test which they were able to. Joe Clark made many extreme actions, influenced many people, treated everyone equally but only for the better change of the school. He was able to make the school a safer place that staff and students wouldn’t be scared of coming to but would want to come for education and happiness. What Joe Clark had done for East Side High and for the people of East Side High made a great change in many people’s life and changed them and the school for the better.

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