Comparing The Film 'Stand And Deliver'

The movie ,“Stand and Deliver”, is about a bad high school that is having money problems and have bad behaving and lower level thinking students. When the new teacher, Mr.Escalante, is hired, he starts to teach math to the students and persuades the students to do better. After the school year is done, summer comes around and Mr.Escalante wants his students to attend summer school with longer hours, so he could teach them calculus. His boss disagrees because she worries if they don’t pass, they’ll lose what’s left of their self confidence. He gets the students to attend summer school and manages to get them to learn Calculus. Afterwards, they all take the advanced AP calculus test and pass but, they get questioned for cheating afterwards since they all had the same wrong answers. Later on they want to prove that they didn’t cheat so they take the test again, which is harder, and they have to study the whole course in a day. After the students take the test, the teacher later on finds out that they all had passed the test through a phone call the principal had. Over the years, more and more students from the same school pass the advanced AP calculus test.

I can most relate to the character Pancho for several reasons.

I relate most to Pancho since he struggles with Calculus, gives up easily, and almost chose a job over his education. bUt after Mr.Escalante convinces him that education is the key to success, he has a new attitude towards his education. For me I struggle with my education and get low grades on most tests and I usually give up easily when it comes to my education. Almost always I choose watching videos on Youtube instead of studying, reading a book, or doing my homework. Eventually I do my homework but I always get distracted between questions. However, sometimes I push myself to study and do my homework because I don’t want bad grades anymore and want to become “successful” so I wouldn’t have it hard in the future because of my mistakes in

school.
    AP courses are courses taken in High school that help you earn college credits and/or allow you to qualify to take more advanced classes when you begin high school. You also have a administrations advantage since they are most likely to look at transcripts with AP courses than transcripts without. At the end of the AP courses, the students take an AP exam to determine their mastery of college level work. If a student gets a 3 or higher on the test, they will get college credits and/or get placed in advanced courses for high school. Several AP courses that are offered are: AP calculus, AP physics, AP chemistry and AP biology. You would be eligible to take them when you are in high school.
    I would be interested in AP Environmental Science, AP Government and Politics-US, AP Psychology, and AP Chemistry. I would take Environmental Science since I’m interested in the study of the relationships between organisms and their environments. I’m interested in taking AP Government and Politics-US because I always watch many Netflix series that are about law and I’m always fascinated by the law and how it impacts different groups of people. I started being interested in psychology since it was about scientific study of human and animal behavior and mental processes. It had amazed me how you can tell so much from an animal’s or someone’s behavior. I would also love to take AP Chemistry because it’s shocking what happens when two or more substances interact, combine, and change and form into a new substance.
    Several High schools that offer AP courses are: Townsend Harris High school, Eleanor Roosevelt High school, New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math, Beacon High School and Scholars’ Academy. In Townsend Harris High school, their AP Pass rate is 90.3% and 100% are college ready. In Eleanor Roosevelt High school, their AP Pass rate is 91% and 99.2% are college ready. In New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math, their AP Pass rate is 85.3% and 96.7% are college ready. In Beacon High School, their AP Pass rate is 78.4% and 91.2% are college ready. Finally, in the high school, Scholars’ Academy, their AP Pass rate is 78.2% and 97.5% are college ready.
    I would love to become either a zoologist or a soldier in the military. General college courses needed to become a zoologists are: zoology, biology, wildlife biology or ecology with coursework in anatomy, wildlife management, cellular biology or even botany, physics and chemistry. There are no college courses needed to become a soldier, in fact you can join the military when you are in college, serve for a specific amount of time and the government will pay for several payments needed in college like the tuition and loan repayments. AP courses would help plan for college to become a zoologist but not a soldier. This is because the only requirements needed to become a soldier are: 17+ age, high school diploma or at least 15 semester hours of college, physical and citizenship requirements. The AP courses that include biology, physics and chemistry would help become a zoologist since the 3 stated are some of the college courses required to get the job.
    Some colleges that offer my concentration in zoology are: Cornell University and Andrews University. Cornell University is in the area and is located at Ithaca, NY. Andrews University is not in the area and is located at Berrien Springs, MI. In Cornell University, I need 120 credits in order to graduate without the residency fee and the Tuition for me is $34,750 since I am a NY state resident. In Andrews University, I need at least 106+ credits in order to graduate and tuition is $27,456 without the other expenses. Also in Cornell University, they have the ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) program which I could join, still be a full time student but work part-time on earning a commission in the Army.