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Thesis: The biggest role Mr. Escalante and Ms. Laughlin played in their students’ lives was giving them inspiration and with that self-confidence.  

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            Another way Escalate and Laughlin are similar is they both have high standards for their students, they know what they can become. The great things that they can do with their life, this is why they will push their students to their full potential. They also know what that full potential is for each individual that comes into their classroom. Ms. Laughlin proved this with a student in my English class, his name was Mark Davidson. I never knew a boy who could get away with merely doing nothing almost on an everyday basis in class. Most of the teachers at my high school gave up long ago in trying to convince him to do work. Although, Laughlin on the other hand had not given up on the challenge, I don’t know how she did it or the exact day that it all changed. But, I do know one thing. Every day that Mark wouldn’t do his work. Laughlin would come over and sit with him and talk to him about why he wasn’t doing his work. Or I guess she would just talk to him, I really don’t know, but whatever she did, she was a miracle worker. One day I looked over at Mark and he was working and he was not just looking at his work and faking it. He was sincerely engaged in his work truly thinking and working on his class work. This is proof of Mr. Escalates words were he states, “Students will raise to the level of expectation, Senor Molina.” Mr. Escalante proved his words to be true many times. He took a classroom of students that appeared that they didn’t want to achieve anything in their life, to students that didn’t want anything other than to gain more knowledge in school. These students started to fight for their education. When the whole class was claimed to have cheated, the whole class started to get fired up about it. They all became very upset, although they were upset this still did not stop them. They continued to work, to study, they all choice to take the test again to prove that they did not cheat. They studied almost all night, the night before the test, then they all in the end passed the test. Since Mr. Escalante and Laughlin both showed their students that they truly believed in them, this helped their students believe in themselves.