Country:United States, Canada
Runtime:90 min
Released:13 Aug 2006
Plot: The Ron Clark Story 2006 1998 Ron Clark, still relatively early in his career, leaves his stable life teaching at an elementary school in his suburban North Carolina hometown, the school where he is appreciated by both his fellow teachers and his students for his innovative teaching methods which results in raising test scores Instead, he decides to look for a teaching job at a tough New York inner city school where he feels he can be more useful He eventually finds a job at Inner Harlem Elementary School, where the students are segregated according to their potential As Clark is white and nice looking, Principal Turner wants to assign him to the honors class, especially as Turners job security depends on good test scores Clark, however, wants to take the most disadvantaged class He quickly learns that it will be a battle of wills between himself and his disruptive students to see who can outlast the other But he also learns that he has to understand them, both individually and collectively, on their level to be able to get through to them before he can teach them the standardized materials But even the best laid plans can be turned askew by unforeseen events, such as illness and the behavior of others outside of his control And he has to overcome the self fulfilling prophecy of failure to instill a sense of worth within the students Through it all, he is supported by Marissa Vega, the beautiful waitress at the restaurant where he works part time
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