Stand & Deliver

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Stand and Deliver
The movie Stand and Deliver is about the public education system in not-so-good parts of Los Angeles. The movie actually takes place during the 1980’s. The movie starts as a new Hispanic teacher enters a school to teach a group of misfit kids about math. Despite giving up a higher paying career, he feels passionate that he can get through to these kids. He came with different ethics and strategies for teaching than the usual teachers and staff, which comes off as hard, but fair. This was the only hope knowing that the school was losing its accreditation. Everyone looked low on these kids and assumed that they were not capable of much, which is already kind of condemning the students. The new teacher would not give up on these kids and would do all he could to ensure their success.
Things weren’t going too well for Garfield High School. It was basically like a zoo. Teachers didn’t have any real commitment or passion about these kids; they just did what they had to get paid. Some teachers weren’t even qualified for their area of teaching. Math was taught by physical education and music teachers. Then again, nothing was really expected of the students. The students basically ran the school. Teachers were afraid of these “cholo” students, who even threaten the new teacher the first day of school. The main objective of this school was to get students graduated, even only if educated in the very basic courses. The students really had all of the control over the faculty, and were bound to fail.
There wasn’t any real structure to the school, nor was there a true commitment to mass education. It was just a job. At first when the teacher arrived there was no respect what so ever. No one was ever really bale to get through to or teach these hoodlums. The new teacher had a plan: challenge the students to learn more with a harder attitude; one that could relate to the students, and so he did. H...