Day ONE: Stand & Deliver

Stand & Deliver is about a new teacher who comes to a high school to teach computer education but instead teaches math. He come to the class the very first day, and realizes there is more to this high school then he thought. With an inter-racial class, gang violence, sex, drugs and drinking are all that consumes their minds. Some students don't speak English, and some don't have seats. So, the teacher has no choice but to adapt to his enviorment. Luckily, he can speak Spanish to them, so that they can do some learning.He tells them to move up front, which they don't like, but they do. One the second day of school, he brings a knife in, and a couple apples to show instances of fractions. He gives each individual student many chances, and some get it, but some don't. He realizes that he needs to make them interested, so he uses "real life" instances that the high schoolers would be interested in, instead of using, "if you have 5 pencils and you subtract 3 you have?" Not only does he help out the entire class, but he helps individuals as well. For instance, there was a girl in his class that needed to help her father out so they could run the family business. The teacher went and talked to her dad in order to try and change his mind. He was not open to the idea at first, however he finally let her go back to school, and maybe have hopes for going to college. In another example, The teacher takes Lou in the back where the books are, and gives him books so that he could study. He gave him, two to bring to class, and one to leave at home so that he doesn't get caught by his friends holding a book. I believe that we need to have more teachers like this. Teachers that are firm, and want you to learn, however will still help you out in any way, shape or form. I think that we would have a lot more people wanting to do their school work. Then, if they do their school work and WANT to learn, there will be a huge change in grades.