Jaime Escalante

Best food.

That's how when Jaime Escalante is giving, almost is doing that whole bit about Mexican American, it's hard.

You have to be twice as perfect.

[laughs] Yeah.

I won't, I just won't send rockets into outer space.

I just won't send rockets into outer space.

[laughs] No, Stand and Deliver is Jaime Escalante.

Yeah.

This is very Stand and Deliver.

This is what, you know, this is straight out of, like, twenty-five years ago KIPP, right? Students rise to the level of our expectations, right? I think that's Jaime Escalante, right? From Stand and Deliver.

They rise to the level of our expectations.

The teacher's expectations, the principal's expectations, the superintendent, the mayor, the city council, and all that.

So again, like we're talking about, you know, this principal she likes more, but we're having the same issues again.

Another tell that maybe she didn't assess this principal properly.

But even if this principal were, you know, the second coming of Jaime Escalante or Mr. Feeny or whoever you wanna say, Mr. Belding, I don't actually think Mr. Belding was a good principal, but this principal is middle management.

They have absolutely n-no tools to actually make a school great, even if they were totally awesome and wanted to do the best they could.

Who was the Garfield High math teacher behind Stand and Deliver? Answer.

Jaime Escalante.

Escalante built a rigorous, supportive program that dramatically increased AP calculus participation and pass rates, even weathering a controversial retest in 1982.

His work became a national symbol of high expectations and effective teaching.

Edward James Olmos.

And I think this is one of the first, if not one of the only movies he's been nominated in for Academy Award, where he portrays Jaime Escalante.

We're talking about Garfield High School, East LA, a school that's getting ready to get shut down by the state.

What's

and the movie itself just kind of shows you just how like some of the methods he uses to keep the kids his students engaged and get him willing them to to want to try and he could be harsh at times and visiting homes and even like at their family businesses i guess there's a scene in there where he gets into it with the parent of one of the students and i guess i read that as actually it was more intense in person than it was in the movie yeah uh but uh one also fun fact

oh the

restaurant yeah the little girl that dropped out yeah Fun fact though, the wife that the The actress that plays the wife of Jaime Escalante is the mom in La Bamba.

And Lou Diamond Phillips is also in Stand and Deliver.

I'm like,

at first I thought he was Jaime Escalante from stand and deliver.

No, I could see that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, any of those, like I saw randomly on like Facebook reels or something, I saw a clip from, uh, stand and deliver where, uh, Jaime Escalante is like, uh, for those that don't know, or if you're not old, uh, stand and deliver is a, uh, movie about a teacher a math teacher in a uh like a struggling school because they're all struggling ethnic schools let's be real and uh he like teaches math and then decides when i want to do ap calculus and and i'm not doing like the the racist uh accent that's how his character speaks throughout the whole movie

yeah it's kind of exaggerated

He is leaning into it.

Yeah.

That is that is absolutely true.

So, yeah, I went Atticus Finch into Jaime Escalante and then Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds.

And I was like, oh, wait, it's literally all of them.