Stand and Deliver

From where we left off in the movie, it was always a shock. The students found out that the department of education in state of California believed that they had cheat on the AP exam they took. This part has always left me in thought and a series of negative emotions. I always feel like this because people do not always have the highest expectations for high schools with hispanic populations. In the movie, the teacher tells the education investigators that if it were some school in Beverly Hills it wouldn’t matter. That it was just be left alone or forgotten, but since it's not and it's from school where no one has real expectations for students after graduation, students that come from barrios, or from Hispanic descendant.

I believe that Escalante gave these teenagers the hope, the dream of being someone and actually doing something with their lives not just being another statistic. He knew that he had to do something that would leave an impact on their lives. From day one day he was hard on them, giving them the discipline they weren’t used too in school. He taught them that they should to work hard to get where they want in life.