Stand and Deliver

A new teacher comes to a school and is supposed to be teaching computers but ends up teaching math instead. He comes into the class for the very first time and all the kids are sitting all over the place and are talking among themselves. He asked everyone to take a seat and finds that there are several students that don't speak english sitting at the back of the class. He told those students to move to the front of the class and has the other students move to the back of the class. He is a teacher that isn't going to take shit from anyone, he's not going to stand down to anyone. He comes to school dressed like a chef and has parts of apples on the desks and asks a few students how much apple they have. Most of the kids couldn't answer. Then he uses his fingers to show a kid his 9 times tables. He has the kids repeat over and over, " a negative times a negative = a positive." Then he stops Lou Diamond Phillips from getting into a fight. He kind of takes to Lou Diamond Phillips and goes out of his way to help him. The teacher helps Lou Diamond Phillips by giving him 3 books, 1 for his locker, 1 for at home and 1 for the classroom. He does this because Lou Diamond Phillips can't have anyone see him carrying any books around. The teacher gives Lou Diamond Phillips a lot of chances and doesn't give up on him. This particular teacher tells the other teachers that they don't have high enough expectations for the students. From what I saw today, I think that this teacher is going to be a really good teacher. He is not going to give up on any of the students and he is going to go out of his way to help them. He truely cares about the students. I have enjoyed the movie to this point.

I found that todays portion of the movie was a lot of the same except for one big complication. The teacher was caring, humorous and wanted to kids to do well. He even thought that the kids could learn calculus and that they could take the advanced placement test and that they would do well. So, that's exactly what he did. He taught them all calculus and they all took the advanced placement test and all passed. He was so happy that they all did so well. All the kids had confidence that they never had before. And then the people that do and grade the test came back and said that they are did so well and all missed the same problems so they must have cheated. They stood their ground for a while telling them that no one cheated but the people wouldn't believe them, so they all took the test again. We'll have to see tomorrow how well they did on the test again. But in the meantime, I am finding that this movie is a very good movie. It shows you that if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. It is a very inspirational movie. The teaching is excellent.