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Clips from Lean on Me

"Now, this is your note."
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"Hmm"
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"mrs. Powers."
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"Yes, sir."
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"These hoodlums told me something."
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"Did you change the school song?"
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"Mrs. Powers-"
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"let her answer!"
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"The children thought the song was boring."
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"Boring, huh?"
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"I have never heard"
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"a school song like that."
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"I didn't authorize you to change it,"
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"did i?"
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"No, you didn't."
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"I want everyone to learn that song"
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"in english and spanish. Immediately."
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"Take a bow, mrs. Powers."
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"You've rewritten our alma mater."
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"The honor"
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"of old eastside high"
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"brings forth our loyalty"
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"loyalty, loyalty"
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"so cheer for dear old eastside..."
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"how's it going?"
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"What you got in there, malachi?"
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"My future."
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"All right."
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"...aboard eastside"
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"all aboard, all aboard"
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"yes, eastside"
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"all aboard, all aboard"
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"how's it going, mr. Darnell?"
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"Good, good. That's great."
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"...high"
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"ge-e-et"
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"fellas?"
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"On"
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"that"
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"train train"
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"train"
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"ms. Levias..."
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"hi, mr. Clark."
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"I just heard something you wouldn't believe."
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"Uh, mr. Clark,"
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"mr. O'malley just brought this from trenton."
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"The school's practice test."
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"I had to wait all this time for this?"
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"Next time i order you to go get something,"
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"you better damn well go get it yourself!"
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"Oh, no. Oh, my god."
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"Give me your attention, everyone."
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"First three rows take 4 steps forward."
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"Right now! Come on!"
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"1, 2, 3, 4."
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"Ok, that's good. Turn around."
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"Hold it, mr. O'malley!"
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"What's your excuse?"
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"I was filling out a big stack of forms."
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"I didn't know what time it was."
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"This is a prime example"
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"of the kind of inefficiency and apathy"
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"that is destroying this school."
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"Mr. O'malley, i can't believe you're that bad."
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"I'll give you a chance to revitalize your image."
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"Set up a student-peer tutoring program."
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"Maybe the students can help themselves."
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"Lord knows, you teachers aren't doing the job."
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"Ms. Levias, i want remedial reading on saturdays."
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"Volunteers will get regular pay."
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"We can't afford overtime."
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"Mr. Clark, the problem isn't our pay."
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"What is the problem as you see it?"
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"How to get the students in on saturday."
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"You hear that, people?"
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"How do we get the students in on saturdays"
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"for remedial reading?"
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"I'll tell you how."
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"We'll go to their homes."
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"We'll talk to their folks."
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"If their folks can't read,"
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"they can come in, too."
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"The only way we'll get anything done"
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"is to get everyone involved."
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"And that goes for all of you!"
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"It's time to get involved."
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"Everyone in this section,"
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"put both your hands above your heads."
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"Raise your hands!"
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"Put them up!"
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"You people represent the 70% of our students"
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"who just failed the practice exam."
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"70%!"
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"But that is not their failure."
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"I don't blame them."
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"The failure is yours."
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"That's right, yours."
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"How many hours do you spend preparing your lesson plans?"
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"How often do you stay after school"
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"to give those children-"
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"the ones you know need it-"
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"the extra help that they require?"
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"Keep your hands up."
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"Now you're getting a hint of the hopelessness and shame"
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"that makes those failing students"
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"throw up their hands"
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"at the thought of facing a world"
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"for which you have not prepared them."
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"You're getting an inkling of the despair they feel"
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"when left to the mercy of the streets."
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"Keep your hands up high."
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"Look around at yourselves."
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"Turn and look at yourselves!"
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"Because you are failing to educate them,"
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"this is the posture our students will wind up in,"
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"only they'll be staring down the barrel of a gun!"
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"Ooh, yeah, yeah"
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"ahh ha ha"
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"if a man is born in luxury"
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"it proves to me through history"
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