Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: 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. "My mother used to stay up," says Arícelí Lerma, an attorney. " Not to check up on him, but to bring him a plate of food because she knew how hard he was working!" He would teach anybody who wanted to learn — they didn't have to be designated gifted and talented by the school. Sandra Munoz, a former Escalante student
Escalante, whose students mischievously nicknamed him "Kimo" (a play on The Lone Ranger's Kemosabe moniker), would not only work with his students until they were all ready to drop from exhaustion, he employed them in the summers as tutors. And he showed them that the best colleges in the country were not beyond their reach.