Comparison with yesterdays observations

Stand and Deliver

I think that this is a really good movie, because it shows different kinds of teaching and that a person can get through to “troubled students” even though most think that they can’t so they just don’t try. I also think that if they let the students take the test again they can prove that they did not cheat on the AP calculus test. The teacher has stuck his head out for them and they really tried to do well to prove they had learned something. He is a great teacher. The students learned respect and about authority.  I am glad we have gotten the opportunity to watch this movie.  

Comparison between yesterday and today:

• ·        He calls on a kid that is sleeping in class and the kid gets the right answer and then the teacher tells him to go back to sleep
• ·        He made a female student mad because he was using her personal life to entertain the class
• ·        He is now trying to teach them calculus.
• ·        He is kind of a jerk to the students and does not listen to what they have to say when it comes to certain things
• ·        He says that they are going to have to study over Christmas break so they can take the AP test
• ·        He teaches English during night school to people that don’t speak English
• ·        He has a heart attack
• ·        The students are all upset when he had the heart attack
• ·         Poncho and Angel het into a fight and a substitute has no idea what to do with the class because he is a music teacher and not a math teacher
• ·        He does not  follow instructions  and goes back to work
• ·        He prepares them for the test by having them stand in a line and answer questions if they get them wrong they have to go to the back of the lien if they get them right they stay where they are and he moves to the next person
• ·        More students passed than any other school all the students passed the test
• ·        Angel showed up late for the announcement that they all passed
• ·        All the students got letters saying that they all cheated because they all got the same answers wrong
• ·        Angel provoked a cop and got pulled over.
• ·        They did not cheat I think they should have everyone take the test over again so they can prove that they did not
• ·        Angel stood up and said “were busted why don’t we just admit it” He was messing with them
• ·        The teacher goes to see the board and wants to see the test and they won’t let him
• ·        He goes to bat for them because he believes in his students
• ·        The board is making them all look bad as well as the teacher
• ·        The teacher accuses them of being racist because they are accusing only the Spanish kids
• ·        All the students agree to take the test again. The board gives them only one day to study for the re take of the test.
• He told them to make sure they did not give them any reason to think that they were cheating.