Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: "Everything we are, we owe to him," says Sandra Munoz, an attorney who specializes in workers' rights and immigration cases in East Los Angeles. She was not originally an Escalante student. Enlarge this image
At the Garfield fundraiser, former students, parents and community members pen fond messages to the teacher the kids nicknamed "Kimo," a play on The Lone Ranger's moniker Kemosabe. Karen Grigsby Bates/NPR hide caption
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At the Garfield fundraiser, former students, parents and community members pen fond messages to the teacher the kids nicknamed "Kimo," a play on The Lone Ranger's moniker Kemosabe. Karen Grigsby Bates/NPR
"But that's what he'd do," she says. " He'd see someone and decide they needed to be in his class. So he pulled me out my sophomore year and put me in his class, and I took math with him. He would teach anybody who wanted to learn — they didn't have to be designated gifted and talented by the school." Munoz's cousin also ended up an Escalante student, and he was still learning English. After-Hours Tutoring
Escalante tutored his students until late at night, piled them into his minivan and brought them home to their parents, who trusted Escalante in ways they never would other teachers.