Garfield High School

Film Summary Stand and Deliver (1988) is a film that discusses and is based on Jaime Escalante. It starts with Escalante becoming a math teacher at James A. Garfield High School, a school whose student population is primarily Latino. The school is underperforming academically, which causes many of the teachers to feel like the kids are a lost cause. Unlike the other teachers, Escalante is undeterred by this obstacles and believes his students are capable of doing well if they are given good…

Escalante teached in Garfield public high school who use his passion and persistence to motivate a group of students who lack of resources and desire to study. Garfield is a public school where most students are from low-economic family, and they all have social or family problems. But, Mr. Escalante believed that he could change their lives and improve their academic levels. So, he set goal for these students which is to pass…

From the moment he stepped foot in Garfield High School, Jaime Escalante was determined to show his class of delinquents that they had the potential to turn their lives around. Mr. Escalante inspired his students to apply themselves, starting in mathematics. Although he first taught them basic math, Mr. Escalante was confident in his students’ ability to excel in calculus and even pass the Advanced Placement exam. Mr. Escalante used unconventional teaching methods to help his students overcome…

streets of Garfield, Tayler, and Martin Luther King grew up poor with nothing, and you can bet that the children they birth will be consumed by poverty and grow up with nothing and be poor as well. They will most likely stay in the same area for their entire lifetime there is no such thing as an American Dream on this part of the city. Majority of this community makes less than $14,000 per year; 53% of students are chronically absent from school; most adults have not gone beyond high school;…

Today the trial Scopes vs. Tennessee also known as the monkey trial will be in court, Teacher John Scopes is brought to court for teaching the theory of evolution to his high school students, which is against the law in the state of Tennessee. John Scopes is a 24 year old teacher who teaches general science at a high school in Dayton, Tennessee, earlier this year in march in the state of Tennessee they passed a law called the Butler Law which prohibited teachers in the state of tennessee to…

learning the different ways to effectively deliver messages to the audience. Another style of writing I would likely use is team collaboration. I personally expect a lot of fun with team assignments because there were not much of them during my high school years. I would enjoy sharing ideas and arguing opinions with my classmates. Lastly, the style of writing that I will likely use and would like to learn the most is reports. Report is the most unfamiliar style of writing for me because I have…

choose a school that didn 't stress me out about those test scores. I choose Lakeland Community College. It was the fall of two-thousand and fifth-teen my senior year in high school! With so many other events on my mind such as my last homecoming, prom and commencement I really didn 't want to think about college, but it was something I had to do. My friends were all talking about college,their dream schools and where they would love to attend school. My friends wanted to attend schools such…

procedures, I still maintain that it is necessary for public education to change paradigms in accordance to the changing generation. For example, a student may lose all motivation to go to school once he learns that a college degree does not always mean a job. Although he already dislikes spending countless hours at school, he may be turned away completely if he is told he needs a college degree to get a job, only to find out that a degree no longer secures a job in society. Although some…

Being a freshman in high school is extremely hard , especially when all your friends went to a different high school. Here I am at Rocky River High eating lunch alone, shy to talk to anyone, and just being “a loner “ people would describe me. Meanwhile at Butler High all my friends are happy reunite with one another , have class and lunch together. The feeling of being alone sucked. A couple weeks into school they had volleyball tryouts. I decided to go since I knew how to play. Tryouts lasted…

hard times in life and that God has a plan no matter what even if it is not what you envisioned. This is so meaningful because you are able to be in a safe and non-judgmental place where you can talk about anything on your mind. Being in middle or high school can make you feel alone even though you are never alone, there is always someone that is in a very similar position as you who can help you or guide you through. My circumstances of committing to Jesus started in 7th grade when I first when…