Movie Review: Stand and Deliver

For a change of pace, Shaun and Jon try their hand as movie critics of Stand and Deliver. They don't provide any helpful clips to go along with their discussion, so listeners may wish to set aside some time to watch the film first or at least cue some of the famous scenes. The two employ their developing perspective on education to draw insights from the film and find some amusement in this legendary super teacher's various encounters with students.
Wow! These guys are going after Jaime Escalante now…not the actual person, but the character portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the great movie, Stand and Deliver. Of course, both of them used to like the movie but now find themselves critical of their former judgments due to their tendency to overthink absolutely everything. 

After a few minutes of chuckling about the cringe factor of the 80s, the two then analyze the movie as though it were a real classroom situation from the 80s. Some insights come from this exercise though all of the insights can be undermined by realizing that the movie is a dramatization, not a reality, but our two movie critics seem caught up in it, so just go with it. What else can you do?

Movie excerpts from Stand and Deliver. Dir. Ramon Menendez. Warner Bros., 1988. Film.
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