Hollywood Revisions

After introducing me to the students of his after-school Math club at Dobbins H.S., Mr. Murray asked how many of them had seen Lean On Me, the 1989 movie about Paterson, N.J. Eastside High School's unconventional and controversial principal, Joe Clark. (I was assisting the school's choir director at the school while he was there.) After a number of students raised their hands I expressed my surprise to one student nearby that so many had seen it, to which she matter-of-factly replied: "that's because it's part of our history."

History, OK. Accurate history? Well, that's another issue.

Behold ... the power of movies.