FUTURES with Jaime Escalante

FUTURES with Jaime Escalante

[@digitalfilmjat6534]

Before "Stand and Deliver", Escalante was an underground legend across the LAUSD back in the 80s. His kids were year by year killing the AP calculus exams. Many of my teachers talked highly about him. There were some teachers that didn't like him though. Both the Teachers Union and LAUSD treated him like garbage because he was over-working and because his results were putting some of the hierarchy to shame.,,,And people wonder why our education system is in the garbage. Unfortunately, I never got to meet Jaime but he has always been one of my heroes. I watched teachers today protest for pay raises and more resources. Although I think they should have that, I can't help but to ask, "What have you done to actually deserve it? Does the results of your work justify it? Because here we have an engineer and educator from Bolivia (a country with much less) coming to America and making a difference where everyone else said it couldn't be done. Yet, his accomplishments were ignored by a system that has run our kids futures into the ground and turning out graduates who are ignorant."

[@topsyturvyy4558]

I wish someone could write about his life and his teaching methods, that is beyond entertainment that would be a huge asset to improve education, that is for those who want to learn from him. Those mediocre teachers were taught a valuable lesson on what is called passion and they didn't like the comparison. Jaime was like the Sinatra, Elvis of education.

[@cloverclover7638]

Why did Hollywood not show the real ending in the movie? They(school staff, admin and teachers) ousted him and voted to kick him out of Garfield High School, all because he was a great teacher!!!! He made the failing school look bad when hedid his job and they didn't. This should be a national outrage!!! Not even the news told us about the hostility against this wonderful teacher!

[@danielmoore411]

Because that happened in 1990 after the movie came out.

[@carultch]

Maybe you could become a Hollywood director, and create a sequel to the movie to show what happened in real life with the school.

[@digitalfilmjat6534]

That happened after the movie. It was the School Principal who stood up for Escalante. But he ended up leaving. Escalante's story is actually a clear case of how the school district bureaucracy and the teacher's union are more into protecting their own self-interests than the proper education of students. Escalante was a demanding controversial teacher; however, his success was a threat to them, their methods, their belief system and therefore their jobs. Naturally we see the outcome of his ouster and what happen to Garfield's math department. As far as him pushing his student's hard? Vast Majority of his former students loved him and are grateful to him. Even those who didn't pass the Calc exams said their lives benefited greatly from him. So his methods could not have been that bad. It's not like he was beating students with a ruler or paddle like in the old days.

[@jonathanhuerta1045]

so this is the real jamie escalate such an inspirational teacher

[@faviocampero3156]

Bolivia 💪❤💛💚

[@cloverclover7638]

I wish he made his own instructional Mathematics DVD/Videos!

[@diego87orlando]

La ignorancia es atrevida, mis respetos a Jaime Escalante un gran profesor.

[@margaritalatina]

Your comment is offensive and petty to people who love and respect Jaime Escalante, who worked hard at opening the doors for people who until then were excluded from this area. He taught them about the possibility of building a better future for themselves. Can't a grown person at least consider that before leaving such an 'outdated' comment about his hat? Who cares if he wears a hat indoors! He was Great hat and all!

[@guitarttimman]

I want to test the bright students. Let t = constant time. Let r = the rate of speed of something, and let D = to the distance traveled. Now let d = rt. What does it mean to say that the limit as d approaches the distance D equals zero?

[@carultch]

Are you trying to understand what limits in general mean? Your question is difficult to follow, and I'm very familiar with the concept of limits. Does capital D have a different meaning in your example than lowercase d? If so, what do you define capital D to mean? What a limit means, is that we have a certain input to a function we are interested in calculating, but we cannot directly plug in our input and calculate the value as we ordinarily would. Maybe because the limit is approaching infinity, maybe because we are stuck with an indeterminate zero/zero, maybe there is a jump discontinuity, or whatever the case maybe. Instead, we are interested in what the function does in the immediate neighborhood of the value we want to compute. Limits are needed in the definitions of both the derivative and the integral, and are a foundation of Calculus.