Lean on Me Page #2

gum under the desks.

I'll make an announcement

in the morning.

Will that satisfy you?

Mrs. Hamilton, you

know mr. Rosenberg,

the school board

attorney.

Yes. How are you,

mr. Rosenberg?

Excuse us,

mrs. Hamilton.

Dr. Napier wants to

inspect our new sandbox.

Our sandbox?

I didn't mean to interrupt.

Good seeing you,

dr. Napier.

Yes, yes.

Forget about what

happened before.

This is a chance

to make changes,

stop blowing smoke

up each other's butts,

see if we can turn

this thing around.

You mean nobody else

wants the job?

Nobody i'd want.

You add my name

to the list.

You're bullshit.

Don't talk to me

about saving those kids.

The mayor wants

to save his budget,

and you want

to save your ass.

Well, so what.

You want

the truth, joe?

Yeah, frank.

Let's have some truth.

For all your talk

and all your

crazy joe routine,

what have you done?

Nothing!

You're nothing but

an insignificant man!

It's like

you were never born.

Your life hasn't

made any difference.

Neither has mine.

Want to take that

to the grave.

We want to welcome

mr. Clark to eastside.

We've heard so much

about you.

In anticipation

of your arrival,

ms. Levias, your other

vice principal, and i

have appointed

an executive committee

to oversee

certain areas

where we have noted

a need for improvement-

you may sit down,

mr. O'malley.

You think you can

run this school?

If you could,

then i wouldn't

be here, would i?

No one talks

in my meetings.

No one!

Take out your

pencils and write.

I want the names

of every hoodlum,

drug dealer,

and miscreant

who's done nothing

but take

this place apart

on my desk

by noon today.

Reverend slappy.

Yes, sir.

You're now

the chief custodian.

You will scour

this building clean.

Graffiti goes up,

it's off the next day.

Yes, sir.

The very next day.

Detention students

can help you.

Let them scrub

this place for a while.

And tear down those cages

in the cafeteria.

You treat them

like animals,

that's exactly

how they'll behave.

This is my new dean

of security,

mr. William wright.

He will be

my avenging angel

as you teachers

reclaim the halls.

This is an institution

of learning.

If you can't control it,

how can you teach?

Discipline is not the enemy

of enthusiasm.

Mr. Zirella.

Yes?

Mr. Zirella, you are now

my new head football coach.

Mr. Darnell.

Stand up,

mr. Darnell.

Mr. Darnell will be

your assistant.

You know why

you're being demoted?

Because i'm sick

and tired

of our football team getting

pushed all over the field.

Thank you. Sit down.

I want precision.

I want

a weight program.

If you don't like it,

mr. Darnell, quit.

Same goes

for the rest of you.

You've tried it your way

for years.

Your students can't pass

a minimum basic skills test.

That means they can

hardly read!

They've given me

less than one year,

one school year to turn

this place around,

to get those

test scores up

so the state

will not take us over

to perform the task

which you have failed to do-

to educate our children!

Forget about the way

it used to be.

It's not

a damn democracy.

We're in a state

of emergency,

and my word is law!

There's only one boss

in this place,

and that's me,

the h-n-l-c.

Are there

any questions?

Mr. Wright.

The h-n-l-c?

The head n*gger

in charge.

Everybody, right up here,

right here.

Check this out.

When i want

your body...

george, brian, sams,

they want you onstage.

Let's go.

Right now.

Mrs. Santos,

what about us?

What about you?

What about me?

Sit down.

I said sit down.

What do they

want us for?

I don't know.

Go.

What do you got

to do around here

to get picked

for something?

Maria, sit down.

Get down

get down

some guys are lame

they want my fame

i got a girl

with juice

her name is deluce,

so check it out

look at chita,

holmes.

Let her

check me out, man.

Afraid of the girlies?

Flash some cash, boy.

Want some?

I'll give you some.

Buy her

some stupid gold.

Step off, man.

You're a joke.

Is this normal?

I'm afraid so.

Is everybody

on the list onstage?

Yes, sir.

I gave their names

to homeroom teachers.

Ladies with the crabs

let me hear you say yeah!

Who's got the crabs?

Mr. Clark.

Don't you remember me?

Kaneesha.

Kaneesha,

how are you, baby?

You know him?

Oh, we go way back.

Fifth grade.

Yeah. How are

things going?

Ok.

Just ok?

Listen, you have any problems,

come and see me.

I'm in my office

every morning at 6:00, ok?

Ok. Good to see you.

That was my elementary

school principal.

All right, people.

Settle down.

Get down

off the seats.

Settle down.

Settle down, boys and girls.

Settle down.

May i have

your attention?

Quiet.

Quiet down.

Take your seats.

You people sit down.

Sit down.

Quiet down.

I am your new principal.

My name is joe clark.

I want you to be quiet!

I want you to listen!

From here out,

there will be no smoking

in this school!

All of you who are smoking,

put out your cigarettes

on the soles of your shoes.

Put the butts

in your pockets now!

You, there. You.

Put out your cigarette.

I'm going to ask

the people onstage

to open

with our school song.

Mr. Roland.

Boy:
Do you believe

this guy?

Go, go, sing!

Suck my dick!

You sing the song.

You sing it.

Joe:
All right. That's enough,

mr. Roland.

That's enough.

I want all of you

to take a good look

at these people

on the risers behind me.

These people have been here

up to 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.

You will not be bothered

in joe clark's school.

Yeah!

Shh!

These people

are incorrigible,

and since none of them

could graduate anyway,

you are all expurgated.

You are dismissed.

You are out of here

forever.

I wish you well.

Oh, sh*t.

Mr. Wright.

I don't need

your school.

I'm going in

the air force, man.

Know what i'm saying?

You know

what i'm saying?

I told you, man.

You ain't nobody.

I'm gonna

get you, man.

You ain't nobody.

Next time it may be you.

If you do no better

than they did,

next time itwillbe you.

They said this school

was dead

like the cemetery

it's built on,

but we call our eastside teams

ghosts, don't we?

And what are ghosts?

Ghosts are spirits

that rise from the dead.

I want you

to be my ghosts.

You are going to lead

our resurrection

by defying

the expectation

that all of us

are doomed to failure.

My motto is simple.

If you do not succeed in life,

i don't want you

to blame your parents.

I don't want you

to blame the white man.

I want you

to blame yourselves.

The responsibility

is yours!

In two weeks,

we have a practice exam

and the minimum basic

skills test on april 13th.

That's 110 school days

from now,

but it's not just about

those test scores.

If you do not have

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