Mr. Escalante was a dedicated teacher

Mr. Escalante was a dedicated teacher, because no matter what happened, he never gave up on himself or the students, he pushed his students to their potential, and he stood up for his students.

Mr. Escalante went to the education testing service to get answers of why the board thought that his students cheated. He walks through the door wearing his average everyday clothing and the two board members are wearing suits and ties. The two men in suits carry themselves as they are federal agents. Mr. Escalante once again does not let the board members intimidate him. When the board was not cooperative, Mr. Escalante kept pushing the board members to show him the answers from his student’s tests. All the board would tell Mr. Escalante is that all of his students got the same answers wrong and that the students could take the test again to prove they did not cheat. The men are still giving very short answers and virtually no explanation. Mr. Escalante then started arguing with the men that if this were to have taken place in Belair and his students were white they wouldn’t even be having this conversation right now. All the men had to say to this is if we don’t single them out people call it discrimination and if we do it is called discrimination as well. By the end of the conversation he told one of the board members that if “I see you on the street I am going to kick your ass.”