I know your comment is 12 years old and you may never see this, but I'm just curious how close to real life the movie Stand and Deliver was. Were you part of the class that was featured in that movie?

I bet you and the other students made him not miss you being in his classroom causing all kinds of drama more than learning math

@@deanfarr3249 lol😂

@@deanfarr3249 Your mother

The students should've all protested. They should've stood in front of that school by the thousands with signs that displayed "BRING BACK JAIME ESCALANTE." He had their backs, they should've had his. That's the beauty about being in America. We can do that! I guarantee you if thousands of kids would have refused to go to school and stood out in front of the school with signs like that, he would have never been terminated. Why do we allow miscreants to run our country? We are supposed to be a democracy. We are supposed to have free speech and the right to revolt, yet nobody does it? I have very good teaching strategies too, and I was once a proven expert at calculus. What's wrong with Americans? We should not take that crap from anyone!

Why would a public school dismiss thier most talented teacher? Why because he didnt accept mediocrity.

When you see a fellow teacher that puts in the effort, and really cares about the students..... ...it can make you insecure in your efforts and/or process.

my mom was a teacher for 25 years and they always bring the teachers who go above and beyond back in line.

@@guitarttimman I wish they would have told about this in the movie. It could have exposed what real trash Garfield High School truly is!

Jaime saved lives. He was there for those kids. I realize that they probably didn't think about organizing a huge protest at that time, but in the future, that is what we need to start doing. If someone saves my life, I'm not going to turn my back on them later. Former President Jimmy Carter saved my life. I had a pregnant girl friend, but no way to feed her and our baby when Mr. Carter was the President. Mr. Carter got me into a program called C.E.T.A. where I earned money for working and going to college. He saved our lives, and I never betrayed him. No matter what, I will always commend Mr. Carter and view him as being the very best president our country has ever had.

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+David Zuniga You'll never be out of work and you'll have the opportunity to work overseas if you want to. Good math teachers are rare to find.

How's it going?

We need more math teachers!!

David, espero que ahora seas maestro. Our people need it. I’m where I am today because of a new wonderful Puerto Rican woman named Mrs. Martínez.

Imagine if every school in the world had a teacher like him. Alot of problems in the world would be solved by the next generation.

Son Bolivianos también? Felicidades.

He lived in his purpose.

Juan Cena you can easily do it Juan. algebra is about understanding that the Left side must always equal the Right side of the equation. L=R. if you change the L then you must also change the R in order to balance the equation. it's like scales. please believe me, your brain is just as good as Einstein's. Einstein famously said "it's not that I am smarter. I just stay with the problem longer". just stay with it. strive to understand the rule if algebra and the rest of the problems will follow. I wish you the best.

No worries my friend. I am 25 and re-learning practical math. Subtraction, division fractions. Échale ganas. Orale!!

I know you are saying crappy in jest. However, as another guy who is going on 34 and about to graduate a crappy community college and go in to a crappy public university. The professors at the community want you to succeed and love to teach. The professors love teaching so much, they went to school to get their masters just so they did not need to teach in k-12. I passed calculus with a B thanks to my wonderful professor.

That's silly; some of the best teachers CHOOSE to teach there so you don't have to pay a ton of money for undergraduate stuff.

Did you end up passing?

Of course you can! Just choose it! It's your life!

@@m.graeber3333 You know what, I am getting my teacher credentials so I am almost a teacher. How life has changed 😃

Damn how old are you now?

Me too. But please don't make excuses. Anyone can do this. He proved it. Community College is cheap. Get a tutor...I did it. I went from a D to A at the finals.

As he said: DON'T GIVE UP, JUST DO IT!

Keep working at it. You can manage.

Don’t go back! Si se Puede! All u need is ganas and u have it, GO BACK!!!

Library is where my copy came from.

Love how you love it.

i was surprised to have to scroll down this far in the comment section to read this.

...he pronounced it just like it's spelled! But it shows how someone without a clue can master a subject!

When I saw this movie around the year 2000, chemotherapy is the first word that came to mind every time I heard his students calling him Kimo. In an unfortunate coincidence, he died of cancer.