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xoxoxoBruce 02-09-2008 02:16 PM
Good News
 
OK, I admit I'm a sucker for good news stories. Here's one that rings my chime.
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Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.

On his first visit, in October 2004, he found a police officer arresting a student and calling for backup to handle the swelling crowd. Students roamed the hallways with abandon; in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show up. “It was chaos,” Mr. Waronker recalled. “I was like, this can’t be real.”

Teachers, parents and students at the school, which is mostly Hispanic and black, were equally taken aback by the sight of their new leader: A member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism with a beard, a black hat and a velvet yarmulke.
He didn't save the world, but damn it, he made it better.

Clodfobble 02-09-2008 02:44 PM
Ever seen the movie Lean on Me? True story. Maybe they'll make a movie out of this one too. :)

skysidhe 02-09-2008 03:02 PM
The Freedom Writers was a good example too. I am glad there are shinning diamonds in our inner city schools.

xoxoxoBruce 02-09-2008 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 431135)
Ever seen the movie Lean on Me? True story. Maybe they'll make a movie out of this one too. :)
Yeah, I loved that movie too.:redface:

Clodfobble 02-09-2008 03:41 PM
My dad grew up right across the river from that school--a couple of decades before it hit rock bottom, but apparently it was no pinnacle of education even back then. We were shown that movie a lot as kids.

Shawnee123 02-10-2008 11:54 AM
Dangerous Minds.

I loved that movie. But then, I think Michelle Pfeiffer is awesome!

Perry Winkle 02-10-2008 01:55 PM
I saw Joe Clark (the guy that Lean On Me was based on) speak during my second year of college. He was amazing and inspirational to hear, and seemed like a genuinely caring bad-ass motherfucker.

xoxoxoBruce 02-10-2008 03:23 PM
Did his ideas sound better because you got the feeling opposing them was too scary?

Perry Winkle 02-10-2008 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 431263)
Did his ideas sound better because you got the feeling opposing them was too scary?
I'm not sure about his ideas. His attitude, presence and force of being were the important part of the talk.

Gravdigr 03-04-2014 01:30 PM
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I felt like this belonged in some thread with 'good' in the title:

Whether you like the show 'Pawn Stars', or, not, you gotta give Rick Harrison (the bald guy that runs the shop) a proper Attaboy for this:

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Gravdigr 05-16-2015 03:16 PM
WWII Female Pilot Flies Favorite Fighter Plane 70 Years Later



:jig:

classicman 05-20-2015 04:23 PM
love that!


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