Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Lean On Me”
Jump!
The scene in the movie where Joe Clark tells his student to jump off the roof and do it expeditiously is really true. Joe said, “Now I know that if that kid had jumped, my black butt would have been in jail for the rest of my life.” And he really did fire the music teacher. He said, “She was the best teacher I had in the school, but that to me was irrelevant.”