Stand and Deliver Movie Review

Many people think that racism is gone but the truth of it is that it is still here and is around us everywhere we go.It exists in our communities and in our schools. In the movie stand and deliver one dedicated teacher decided that he would teach a group of Hispanic students that lived in barrios AP Calculus and said that they would all pass the test. But the head teacher in the math department said that if they didn't pass the AP exam it would crush the little self-esteem they had. Mr.Escalante the teacher decided that he would teach them at early hours in the morning and they would stay a couple hours after school but not even that they would have to come on Saturdays also and they started their classes in the summer to get a head start. Those students must have really wanted to succeed if they were willing to put in all that time and effort.But Mr.Escalante made them sign a contract which said that they had to come to every class regardless of anything. There was one character named Pancho who wasn't the brightest student he said that he was going to be a really good car mechanic and was going to make more money than Mr.Escalante but when him and Mr.Escalante took a drive he told Pancho that "you only see now you never see the road ahead." which is true because most kids just do the thing they do because they can they never really take the time to see where those things are going to take them.When it finally came time to take the test they were all ready and prepared.Proudly they all passed even Pancho but when a striking phone call to the students homes changes every thing i mean all their hard work gone to waste because the board of education thinks they all cheated because they got the same wrong answer sand that most kids who take the exam average up to 14-15 wrong answers when they averaged 4-5.But they didn't even let Mr.Escalate look at the test and Mr.Escalante had told them they should retake the test even though it was going to be harder and they only got one day to study so they all started to review from chapter 1 again. One girl didn't even get to finish the re take because she told the man that was part of the board of education and who was running the test that she had to go to do some work for her college scholarships and the man said that "couldn't it wait" like implying that the AP exam was much more important than her going to college but the AP exam is college credit but she actually has to get into college first. Besides all the odd they all passed all 18 students proving they did not cheat it wasn't a conspiracy that it was their knowledge and if the other students didn't score as high as they did it was because they were lazy didn't put in the effort because most students as seniors are goofing off. Every year after that more and more students started to pass the exam thanks to Mr.Escalante who believed they could do it because that math director was only holding them back by saying that they couldn't do it.