KTUC 1400 AM Tucson, Online KTUC 1400 AM Tucson Radio internet, KTUC 1400 AM Tucson USA Radio 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 :, 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 ! 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, shit. 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 th. That's school days from now, but it's not just about those test scores. If you do not have these basic skills, you will find yourselves locked out, locked out of that american dream that you see advertised on tv, that they tell you is so easy to get. You are here for one reason, one reason only- to learn to work for what you want. The alternative is to waste your time and to fall into the trap of crime, drugs, and death. Does everyone understand that? Do all of you understand me? Then welcome to the new eastside high. Mr. Clark don't play. What happened this morning is an outrage. My boy's no criminal. Those children belong in school, not back out on the street. You're a fascist, clark! Our kids don't deserve this! Some of them are smart. They're just discouraged about their chances out there, what kind of jobs they got waitin'. Now what kind of chance do they have? He insulted the black football coach. The man's gone crazy. He's declared war on his own people. Remember, miss barrett, mr. Clark was nice enough to come to this emergency meeting after a very trying day. I think we owe him a chance to respond. They say one bad apple spoils the bunch. Man: My son ain't no bad apple! Well, what about ? Rotten to the core. Now, you're right, mrs. Barrett. This is a war. It's a war to save , other students, most of whom don't have the basic skills to pass the state exam. Now, if you want to help us, fine. Sit down with your kids and make them study. Go get your families off welfare. How dare you talk about welfare! Give our children some pride. Let them get their priorities straight. When dr. Napier came to me offering this job, i saw the lightning flash. All right! I heard the thunder roll! Give it to 'em! I felt breakers crashing, swamping my soul. We are not in church, mr. Clark! I fell down on my knees Radio and i cried, "my god Radio why has thou forsaken me?" Tell 'em about it. And the lord said, "joe, you're no damn good." No, no. I mean this Radio more than you realize. "You're no earthly good at all "unless you take this opportunity and do whatever you have to." And he didn't say, "joe, be polite." Do whatever you have to to transform and transmogrify this school into a special place, where the hearts and souls and minds of the young can rise, where they can grow tall and blossom out from under the shadows of the past, where the minds of the young are set free. That's right! And i gave my word to god. And that's why i threw those bastards out. And that's all i'm going to say. Mr. Clark, i wanted to talk to you about those kids you threw out yesterday. Well, what about them? I was one of them, but you made some kind of mistake. Mistake? Yes, sir. What's your name, son? Sams. Thomas sams. Thomas sams. You're a freshman? Yes, sir. Cutting class and smoking crack, mr. Sams. There's no mistake. No, sir. It wasn't me, sir. I swear it wasn't. It wasn't you? No. Do you think i'm stupid, son? No, sir. Yes, you do. You're trying to con a con man. You're not even learning anything on the streets, are you? You come with me. What are you doing? What's up here? Now, let me tell you something. The trouble with being a teenager is you don't know nothing. You think you're smarter than people who've already been down the road you're traveling. You know what i'm saying? Do you? Yes, sir. Did you tell your father i threw you out of school? Look at me, damn it! No, sir. Why not? No guts, huh? Afraid of what he'll say, aren't you? My father doesn't live with us anymore, sir. Is that what you're doing? Going around feeling sorry for yourself? Get out of here!