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Laila 2022-03-16 08:01:01

1.Pollute, defile, pollute, desecrate. (Let's make three sentences with different meanings together.)

2. They can't crucify me, I have hammers and nails, I can't be anyone's victim.

3. "Now is an opportunity for us to change, support each other, and see if we can change this school." "No one else wants to do it?" "I don't want anyone else." "Well, count me in."

4. "The truth is that despite all your talk, your fame, and your seeming ability, what have you done?! Nothing! You are nothing but insignificant, as if you never came into this world. However, it makes no difference whether you exist or not, just live like this for the rest of your life!"

5. "Take off all the cages in the cafeteria, you treat them like animals and they will behave like animals!"

6. "Discipline is definitely not the enemy of vitality! Absolutely not!"

7. "Forget your old ways, we don't need any democracy here, we are in a critical moment, my word is the law! There is only one boss here, and that's me!"

8. "People say a school is dead and it's like a cemetery in the past, but I said, the students of our Eastside school are elves. What are elves, elves are the souls of those who died, I hope you are my elves, Let's revive this school together and let the prophecies that we are doomed go bankrupt! My proclamation is simple, if you fail in your life, don't blame your parents, don't blame white people (people with natural advantages) ), blame yourself, it is you who is responsible!"

9. "If you don't master the basic skills, you are excluded, excluded from the American dream, you are here with only one mission, and that is to learn, to work for your hope, and everything else is a waste of time. It's your cowardice, crime, drugs, death trap. Do you understand? Everyone understands?! Then I welcome you to the new Eastside High School!"

10. "One rotten apple destroys a branch, what about 300 rotten apples? 300 rotten apples?!"

11. "It's a war, it's a war to give up 300 rotten apples to save another 2,700 students!"

12. "If you want to help us and ourselves, it's for students to learn so they can stop relying on relief! Let our children regain their self-confidence and let them face their priorities!"

13. "When Mr. Lapierre came to me and asked me to do this job, I saw lightning and I heard thunder, and I felt the grinder breaking my soul, and I couldn't help but kneel. With my legs down, I shouted: My Lord! Why did you abandon me! The Lord said Jiao, you are not good, you are not a hero at all, unless you seize this opportunity and do what you have to do. It doesn't say you have to be polite, it says do what you have to do, you have to make this school a special place, and in this school children's hearts, their souls, and their minds are elevated, Where they can shake off the shadows of the past, where they can grow and blossom, where children's minds can be liberated!"

14. "How many times have I told you, put those down and put more stuff in your head!"

15. "You didn't tell me Mrs. Alice, and you disobeyed your superiors, and you doubted my ability to judge my ability and my intelligence!"

16. "Nobody knows what you're trying to do!" "I like it!"

17. "I thought you niggas didn't like chains!"

18. “We are going through a harsh journey that will turn black people into a perpetual inferior class!”

19. "If you can't graduate without basic skills, what's the use of Mozart?!"

20. "You have to bow your head and you have to apologize! You have to get used to the world as it is! If you value discipline then obey me first, because in fact I am the head of a black man!"

21. "You shouldn't have fired me!" "You're right, but don't make it a habit!"

22. “The only way to succeed is to get everyone involved!”

23. "Everyone's hands up now! Raise it up! You guys who represent %70 of the failing students, but I don't blame them, it's your failure, yours! Yes, how much time do you spend preparing lessons, Do you often leave poor students behind to help them with tutoring after school?! Don't put your hands down, put your hands up! Now you have experienced the failure and humiliation that those students who failed have felt! Facing a world where none of you have prepared them for them Raise their hands, they only have a slight taste of the disappointment of being abandoned on the street. Please raise your hands high and look around, because you have not educated your students well, and your students will be in this posture in the future! If you go It's too late then!"

24. "I want to tell you what some people say about you, how they treat your chances of success, they say you are inferior, and they say you are the descendants of imbecile blacks and Hispanics and whites. Scum, education is a waste to you, you can't learn anything, you have no hope, I'm referring to everyone here! ... Do you understand what I mean? Does everyone understand? We share weal and woe, we live and die, we Fate is forever linked!"

25. “Let their words be a lie!”

26. "Usually always educate children not to go to jail..."

27. "Banana Clark is not going anywhere!"

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  • Trystan 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    That's how American campuses opened in the 1980s. .

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    Think about our education industry

Lean on Me quotes

  • [after seeing the dilapidated, crime-infested interior of Eastside High School, Joe Clark, the new elected principal, is introduced to the school board]

    Mr. O'Malley: We want to welcome Mr. Clark to Eastside - we've heard so much about you - and to tell you what we've done 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. Mr. Zirella, for example...

    Joe Clark: [cuts him off] You may sit down, Mr. O'Malley.

    [Mr. O'Malley takes a seat]

    Joe Clark: [addresses the teachers and the board] You think you run this school? If you could, then I wouldn't be here, would I? No one talks in my meetings. No one! You 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?

    Rev. Slappy: Yes, sir.

    Joe Clark: You are now the Chief Custodian, Reverend Slappy. You will scour this building clean. Graffiti goes up, it's off the next day. Is that clear?

    Rev. Slappy: Yes, sir. The very next day.

    Joe Clark: 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 exactly how they'll behave.

    Joe Clark: [to the new head of security] This is my new Dean of Security, Mr. William Wright. He will my Avenging Angel, as you teachers reclaim the halls. This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can't control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm! Mr. Zirella?

    Mr. Zirella: [stands up] Yes, sir.

    Joe Clark: Mr. Zirella, you are my new head football coach. Mr. Darnell? Stand up, Mr. Darnell.

    [Mr. Darnell stands up]

    Joe Clark: Mr. Darnell will be your assistant. You know why you're being demoted, Mr. Darnell? Because I'm sick and tired of our football team getting push all over the field. Thank you, sit down!

    [He does]

    Joe Clark: I want *precision*. I want *a weight program*. And if you don't like it, Mr. Darnell, you can QUIT! Same goes for the rest of you. You've tried it your way for years, and 60% your students - excluding those with criminal records - 60% of them can't even pass the state's Minimum Basic Skills Test. THAT MEANS THEY CAN BARELY READ! They've given me one school year - less than 12 months - to turn this place around, to get those test scores up, so that 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. This is not a damn democracy! We are in a state of emergency and my word is law! There's only one boss around in this place. And that's me, the H.N.I.C. Are there any questions?

    [the board becomes silent]

    Joe Clark: Mr. Wright, with me.

    [Both leave the meeting room]

    Mr. O'Malley: [to Ms. Levias] The H.N.I.C.?

    Ms. Levias: The Head Nigger In Charge.

  • Ms. Levias: [as Mr. Clark is walking down a hallway, she is running up to him] Mr. Clark!

    Joe Clark: Yes, Ms. Levias?

    Ms. Levias: May I talk to you for a minute please?

    Joe Clark: What is it?

    Ms. Levias: I want you to transfer me.

    Joe Clark: To where?

    Ms. Levias: Out of here!

    Joe Clark: You know, this doesn't surprise me one bit, Ms. Levias. I have sensed resistance in you since our very first meeting.

    Ms. Levias: You're an egomaniacal windbag

    Joe Clark: Who are you talking to?

    Ms. Levias: I'm talking to you! You like to whip people who can't fight back. I thought I could take it because I had a father in the same kind of pain that makes you just a bastard, but I was wrong. Life is much too short. I will NOT endure you any longer!

    Joe Clark: You will not endure me?

    Ms. Levias: The reason I haven't walked out and half the staff along with me is because those children need us here! You're so busy talking discipline that you fail to educate!

    Joe Clark: Is THAT SO?

    Ms. Levias: YES!

    Joe Clark: What in the hell do you think I've been doing here all this time?

    Ms. Levias: So you cleaned it up. That was the easy part.

    Joe Clark: That's the easy part?

    Ms. Levias: Those children want to be helped! They've worked their hearts out for you, done everything you asked them to, believed what we told them. But I feel sorry for them! They're not ready to take that test!

    Joe Clark: What the hell are you talking about? I have done everything, everything I...

    Ms. Levias: I, I, I! It is always I! There are 300 teachers on the faculty here, you do NOT do it alone!

    Joe Clark: [walking away] I don't have to stand here and listen to these accusations!

    Ms. Levias: You will listen! YOU WILL STAND THERE AND YOU WILL LISTEN!

    Joe Clark: [stops and faces her] Why, Mrs. Levias? Huh? Go ahead and talk!

    Ms. Levias: For the past seven months, you've been flapping your mouth and you haven't heard a thing. You haven't even seen what's painfully obvious!