Mike Rose's "I Just Wanna Be Average" Part 2 comparing w/Stand and Deliver

Just to start off, I thought both of these teachers were great. Obviously by watching the movie, Stand and Deliver, we got a more first hand experience of how Mr. Escalante was like & we didn't truly get that by reading Mike Rose's essay, " I Just Wanna Be Average" I still saw the exceptional teaching strategies of Mr. MacFarland. Throughout both of these stories you see strikingly similarities in the situation that they're put in & then the outcomes that come out of those situations. For example both Mr. Escalante & Mr. MacFarland  come in during time of struggle. Mike Rose was going through hard times when Mr. MacFarland came into his life. Coincidentally, Mr. Escalante was put into a class of struggling teens. Also, they both used hard work and lots of assignments to get where they wanted their students to go and what they wanted to them to learn. "We wrote three or four essays a month... We read a book every two to three weeks... He gave us a quiz on the reading every other day" explains Mike Rose. Mr. Escalante says from the beginning that they are going to have a quiz every day and a weekly quiz at the end of the week and then when he decides to teach them calculus he says, "You're going to work harder than you've ever worked before." Mr. MacFarland was able to make Mike Rose succeed in English, who never expected to even get into college. Mr. Escalante taught the kids calculus even though the other administrators doubted they would ever be able to. Not only did he teach them it he enabled them to pass the AP exam, even the most unlikely kids like Tito, who scored a 5, the highest possible score, on the exam.