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The film “Stand and Deliver” showed a classic example of student’s needs not being met. Jaime Escalante recognizes this and devotes his career to correcting this. The students were not being taught material that was appropriate for their developmental level, thus they were unmotivated and didn’t care. Although the developmental issue wasn’t the only reason for their previous poor performance, it certainly played a role. When he took over as their teacher, he recognized right away that these students were not being taught college prep.classes. He made it his mission to prepare them so that they could attend college. This seemed ludicrous to many administrators as they felt these students had performed so