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Where Is Joe Clark?
group of retired teachers shook their heads when they discussed a letter recently written to the Tampa Bay Times by a teacher who said she was quit- ting the teaching profession because it was “killing”
her.
Working in a local middle school (Jennings) had be-
come so stressful for her until the teacher feared for her life, her safety, and her sanity. She believed the school district’s act of replacing the school’s administrative staff was an attempt to pacify teachers who had called attention to numerous issues confronting the school’s teaching staff.
Citing issues such as delinquent and criminal student behavior (sex in the restrooms, drug use, fights, pulled fire alarms, destruction of property, etc.), lack of enough staff, and teaching staff who leave school in a hurry before the students have boarded the school buses.
Indeed, the teacher compared the conditions at her school to those shown in the 1989 movie, Lean On Me, about a Patterson, New Jersey high school with some of the lowest test scores and student behavior problems.
The school, Eastside High School, had deteriorated because of drugs, crime, and lack of teacher safety. Ele- mentary school principal Joe Clark, aka “Crazy Joe,” who had also been a teacher at Eastside, was brought back to Eastside to change the school culture and stu- dent progress.
Clark used a series of nontraditional measures to es- tablish order and improve students’ test scores. Part of Clark’s strategy was to hold teachers accountable for ed- ucating the students and preparing them for the real world.
Clark’s tactics and strategies worked, raising the stu- dent test scores to an unprecedented high level. The suc- cess of his strategy was assisted by a love for the students by the school’s teachers.
Teachers cannot teach if they fear to love or don’t care about their students. Indeed, the most significant action was that of the parents of Eastside High School. They began to require that the students change their be- havior in class and do the work assigned by teachers.
The retired teachers suggested that Jennings become staffed with a “Joe Clark” type principal, with teachers who are not afraid of Black students, and a required parent involvement contract.
Changing staff will be successful only if the right peo- ple are brought in to change the culture, student behav- ior and student success rates. Meanwhile, we have our own “crazy Joes” who aren’t “scared” of academic change. Let us call them back into action.
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