Thursday, April 28, 2011

Staand and Deliiver...>>!

Stand and Deliver was about a class of students in Garfield High School In L.A who weren't being taught anything and were not inspired to learn anything. That's when Jaime Escalante came, a teacher who was supposed to be teaching computer was put to teach them math. The group of kids involved kids who didn't care like Guadalupe,Pancho and Claudia, some kids were involved in gangs like Angel but Jaime decided to change that and help them out to learn. Jaime entertained them with his jokes but at the same time taught them. These group of kids then started to realize that they could really get an education and they started to chip in and bring all their best to their learning. Jaime then decided to start teaching them Calculus to get ready to take an AP test for college credit. They studied day and night for many months, they really were inspired and believed in that they could do it. The day came and they took the test and they knew they did a great job. That's when things took a wrong turn the directors of the test came and told Jaime that all the students had the same answers wrong and accused them of cheating. They were really dissapointed and said that they were being racist just because they had a poor school and came from very bad backrounds. Jaime did not approve to this and went to tell the directors that his kids did not cheat and that he was going to prove them wrong. The kids took the test again and had outstanding results. Jaime was very proud of them because he motivated them and taught them what they needed to know. This movie was based on a true story of Garfield High School in L.A. I really liked this movie because it was very inspiring and he gave those kids courage to have the potential to learn. Here's a video of Edward James Olmos talking about why he loves teaching


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