As Clark is white and "nice" looking, Principal Turner wants to assign him to the honors class, especially as Turner's job security depends on good test scores. He eventually finds a job at Inner Harlem Elementary School, where the students are segregated according to their potential. 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. 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.
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