Stand and Deliver Movie Notes

Very run down city. Looks very poor black people are the majority. Super poor school, looks like a lot of punk kids. That was amazing that he just randomly starting speaking Spanish. It looks like the kids who speak Spanish care more about their education and seem to be more respectful.

Wow the teacher was there for one day and he was already robbed, it seems like a super crazy school. He wants to be a teacher. I like that he jokes with the kids. None of these students know math, they are like in 4^th grade math or something. He uses cooking to teach that is what is the most interesting and cool. There was a fight right in the middle of the school ground and no one even really cared. He makes fun of the kids who are being stupid it is awesome. I like it when teachers put kids in their place.

Students will rise to the level of expectations. This is so true. One of the boys in this gang thing has a hard time showing that he is smart. I think that he will help the other guys in his gang make themselves better.

No one in class is going to take the daily quiz; I think he is going to come up with an awesome way to get them back. He uses per pressure to embarrass the students. Most of these students come from a hard family life.

One of the girls has no support from the family. Their families don’t expect anything from their children. They are bitter about their situation, but they don’t want to change it.

He has fun with his students. That is what I like and he really wants to help his students to excel. The other teachers laugh at him for trying to push his students into Calculus and moving them forward.

The school has terrible conditions to have school in. You can tell that his students respect him now, because he treats them with respect. Plus he also believes in them and trusts them.

One mother didn’t support her daughter and also said that “boys don’t like it when girls are too smart.”

Kimo the teacher really cares about his students are their personal life, which is really sweet of him. Most of these students are really good kids they just have never had anyone who truly cares about them in their life.

I almost think that Kimo is too strict at times. I think he should listen to him students a bit more at times. He is taking so much time with his class that he is taking away from his own family.

Kimo is working himself so much that he had a heart attack.  Now they had a sub, I have a feeling that they are going to lose some of the things they learned and they have their AP exam in two weeks. I think they might fail, which is going to be super sad, because Kimo has worked so hard for them. Kimo starts teaching the kids when he is supposed to be resting for a month.

After their AP exam was over they went to the beach to party! They all went in with their clothes on. They got their AP test scores back. No other high school has more students than this high school all of them passed their test. 

They think that all the students copied because they all got the same answers wrong. They are all super upset about the test. The students are losing it and going back to their old ways. They are interrogating the kids asking if the cheated or if someone did. They make fools out of the board people. Even one of the principal people thinks they cheated. Then his car gets stolen.

Kimo feels that teaching the kids was a failure. He thinks he taught them that if you try real hard nothing changes. The students stole the car then they decked it out.

He goes to the board and asks to see the student’s mistakes on the tests. They won’t show him the test; I think they are hiding something. He now is ragged and he is saying that the board is being raced.

Now the whole class is going to retake the test. He reviews the whole test with them, and he also gives them a pep talk. Poor Kimo is super nervous for his students. All the students are having trouble on the same problems. All the students pass the retake test.

Overall I think that Kimo was a good teacher he motivated his students. He truly believed in them and knew that they could do great things. I also know that he cared about them on personal level. He cares for their family situation. He was also amazing because he really wanted what was best for his students. He had a passion for what he did and he taught his students in a very fun and interactive way. I was amazed at how well he was able to change those kids and also to keep them engaged. He made learning fun and yes at times he pushed himself too much and sometimes he pushed his students really hard. He did it out of care for them, he did it because he knew that they could do something better than what they were allowing for themselves.