History Film / StandAndDeliver

* FalseConfession: When one of the more vulnerable students [[BreakTheCutie begins to cry]] under interrogation by ETS investigators, Angel confesses to cheating. [[BlatantLies Specifically, his father stole the test questions and Angel killed him for his trouble.]] Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: [[spoiler:"[[BlackComedy He's decomposing in my locker]]."]]

* FlippingTheBird: A student does this to Escalante in an attempt to be clever. [[CoolTeacher Escalante does him one better]], showing him how to quickly multiply by nine on his fingers.

* FourGirlEnsemble: All four of the female students featured in the movie represent different aspects of this trope. Ana is a combination of the sweet one/[[TheSmartGuy smart girl]] due to her love for mathematics. Claudia is the sexy one because she "gets around" the most and is considered the school's residential beauty. Lupe is [[TeamMom Team Mom]] because she takes care of her younger siblings while her parents are at work. Rafaela is considered the mannish one because she is shown to hang around Tito the majority of the movie and dress in masculine attire (i.e. over-sized boy shirts and pants).

''Stand And Deliver'' is a 1988 film starring Edward ([[Series/HowIMetYourMother not]] ''[[Series/HowIMetYourMother Jacob]]'') James Olmos based on the true story of the late Jaime Escalante, a computer technician who became a math teacher in an InnerCitySchool to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.

->"How do I reach these ''keeeds''?"
-->-- '''Cartman''', imitating Jaime Escalante to teach an inner city high school, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Contrary to what some WesternAnimation/SouthPark fans may have you believe, Jaime Escalante never said "How do I reach these kids!"

Stand And Deliver is a 1988 film starring Edward ([[Series/HowIMetYourMother not]] ''[[Series/HowIMetYourMother Jacob]]'') James Olmos based on the true story of the late Jaime Escalante, a computer technician who became a math teacher in an InnerCitySchool to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.

!!StandAndDeliver contains examples of:

* FalseConfession: When one of the more vulnerable students [[BreakTheCutie begins to cry]] under interrogation by ETS investigators, [[LouDiamondPhillips Angel]] confesses to cheating. [[BlatantLies Specifically, his father stole the test questions and Angel killed him for his trouble.]] Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: [[spoiler:"[[BlackComedy He's decomposing in my locker]]."]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[LouDiamondPhillips Angel]] pretends to be less intelligent than he is so that his friends will still think he's cool. He refuses to be seen bringing books to class.

* ChekhovsGun: the mistake 0 to pi over 2

* FalseConfession: When one of the more vulnerable students [[BreakTheCutie begins to cry]] under interrogation by ETS investigators, [[LouDiamondPhillips Angel]] confesses to cheating. [[BlatantLies Specifically, his father stole the test questions and Angel killed him for his trouble.]] Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: "[[BlackComedy He's decomposing in my locker]]."

* FalseConfession: [[spoiler: When one of the more vulnerable students [[BreakTheCutie begins to cry]] under interrogation by ETS investigators, [[LouDiamondPhillips Angel]] confesses to cheating. [[BlatantLies Specifically, his father stole the test questions and Angel killed him for his trouble.]] Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: "[[BlackComedy He's decomposing in my locker]]."]]

* FalseConfession: When one of the more vulnerable students [[BreakTheCutie begins to cry]] under interrogation by ETS investigators, [[LouDiamondPhillips Angel]] confesses to cheating. [[BlatantLies Specifically, his father stole the test questions and Angel killed him for his trouble.]] Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: "[[BlackComedy He's decomposing in my locker]]."

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Lou Diamond Philips's character pretends to be less intelligent than he is so that his friends will still think he's cool. He refuses to be seen bringing books to class.

* InSeriesNickname: The students call Escalante "Kemo," short for "[[TheLoneRanger Kemo Sabe]]."

* {{Dramatization}}: In RealLife, Escalante didn't start teaching AP Calculus until his fourth year at the school (1978), and the events in the film [[Spoiler (especially the accusations of cheating)]] are based on Escalante's fourth year teaching the course (1982). [[Spoiler Further, only twelve of Escalante's fifteen students accused of cheating retook the exam.]] All of them did pass, though.

* FlippingTheBird: A student does this to Escalante in an attempt to be clever. Escalante does him one better, showing him how to quickly multiply by nine on his fingers.

Stand And Deliver is a 1988 film starring Edward ([[Series/HowIMetYourMother not]] ''([[Series/HowIMetYourMother Jacob]]'') James Olmos based on the true story of the late Jaime Escalante, a computer technician who became a math teacher in an InnerCitySchool to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.

Stand And Deliver is a 1988 film starring Edward James Olmos based on the true story of the late Jaime Escalante, a computer technician who became a math teacher in an InnerCitySchool to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.

Stand And Deliver is a 1988 film starring Edward James Olmos based on the true story of Jaime Escalante, a computer technician who became a math teacher in an InnerCitySchool to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Contrary to what some WesternAnimation/SouthPark fans may have you believe, Jaime Escalante never says "How do I reach these kids!"

* CoolTeacher / SternTeacher: Jaime Escalante embodies both of these tropes. While what he does is cool, he's harsh and demanding enough to be a SternTeacher, and probably wouldn't be very fun to actually ''have''. This is TruthInTelevision according to many of his former real-life students.

* Determinator: Escalante, after being hospitalized for a heart attack and denied to continue working, writes class notes on paper napkins and has a nurse smuggle them to his students so they can continue studying despite the incompetent substitute teacher. The students themselves go from barely understanding freshman-level algebra to [[spoiler: passing an AP calculus exam ''twice'']], despite gang violence, institutional racism, self-doubt, poverty, and in some cases sexism.

-->-- '''Cartman''', imitating Jaime Escalante to teach an inner city high school, in an episode of ''SouthPark''.

Not to be confused with the catch-phrase of English [[TheHighwayman highwaymen]]. Or the song by Adam Ant ''about'' a highwayman.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Contrary to what some SouthPark fans may have you believe, Jaime Escalante never says "How do I reach these kids!"

* LosAngeles

Not to be confused with the catch-phrase of English [[TheHighwayman highwaymen]]. Or the song by Adam Ant ''about'' a highwayman.

* SaveOurStudents

Not to be confused with the catch-phrase of English [[TheHighwayman highwaymen]]. Or the song by AdamAnt about a highwayman.

Not to be confused with the catch-phrase of English [[TheHighwayman highwaymen]].