Stand and Deliver

zaak🥳4.0

fuck college board, all my homies hate college board

Pube3.5

This is the movie that the shitty math teachers of my generation showed their students so they wouldn’t have to teach them math.

Paul Donovan2.0

This is one of those "based on a true story" inspirational teacher movies. about an inner city high school math teacher. Now, I have been teaching high school math in the inner city for 9 years, so I watched this movie carefully to see how realistic it was. It turns out that the movie is extremely realistic - for the first 8 minutes. But starting on minute 9, when the guy starts actually teaching, the movie turns into a fairy tale.It's about a guy named Jaime Escalante who leaves his industry job to teach high school and discovers that his students don't know their basic math skills. Then when the school discovers they might lose their accreditation, Escalante decides to teach his students AP calculus. Ignoring everyone that thinks he's crazy, he teaches a class of students for a full year, including summer, and at the end of the year they all pass the AP Calculus exam. Nobody believes they could actually do it, so they are accused of cheating. Determined to fight the racist stereotypes, they decide to take the test again to clear their names.If you're familiar with the real story you'll know that the film took the highlights of 8 years in real life and condensed them into one year, and one class.But even if you aren't familiar with it, a little bit of common sense tells you that the events in the movie are impossible. Nobody can go from 5th grade math knowledge to college level in 12 months. Besides, real inner city students don't act like the ones in the movie. They don't suddenly start paying attention just because the teacher makes a few jokes. They don't all suddenly discover their hidden talent for math and overcome all obstacles to go to college. And they certainly won't spend their summers learning math in a hot locker room with no air conditioning."Stand and Deliver" is, on the surface, a feel-good inspirational movie about the power of persistence, and how it's a bad idea to judge kids according to their environment.However, this movie is kind of poisonous, for several reasons. It makes you think that systemic problems in education can be fixed by one person in one year. It glamorizes "thinking outside the box" but ignores the failures and fights along the way. Perhaps worst of all, it gives at-risk kids an unrealistic picture of what it takes to succeed. The whole movie is just a bunch of magical thinking.