Jaime Escalante was a successful math teacher. His poor, inner-city
(LA) students passed more AP Calculus exams than students at
nearby Beverly Hills High. His classes were large - up to 50 - because
of demand. The 1988 movie Stand and Deliver documents the
success.
The teachers' union got him removed as chairman of the math
department and, he returned to his native Bolivia. The math
program went into a decline from which it has not recovered.
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