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Arnold Taps Math Teacher Jaime Escalante ('Stand and Deliver') as Education Advisor
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| August 27, 2003
| Rob Miller and Danielle Jones
Posted on 08/27/2003 7:08:54 AM PDT by prarie earth
California Gubernatorial Candidate Arnold Schwartzenegger has tapped 72 year old Compton, Ca. Advanced Placement Calculus teacher Jamie Escalante to advise him on education issues.
Mr. Escalante is known for the 1987 film 'Stand and Deliver' which details his career teaching college math to East Los Angeles High School students.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: education; jaimeescalante; jamieescalante; recall; schwarzenegger; standanddeliver
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Man, this campaign is on a roll..
To: prarie earth
Interesting!
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:09:38 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: prarie earth
Not a bad move. Good for him.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:11:21 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Saddam Had No Taepodong-II nuke ICBMs capable of hitting the World's Largest & 2nd Largest Economies)
To: prarie earth
Not a bad choice... He's a man who believes in getting what you want through hard work.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:13:13 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
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To: AmericanInTokyo
To: Sloth
Exactly the word that popped into my head.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:14:38 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: prarie earth
Movies ARE real life, you know! If a person hasn't been in a movie, or whose life hasn't been memorialized in one, then they simply aren't campaign-worthy.
Oddly enough, this may not be sarcasm in California. While it may lok like a joke in "fly-over country", this just might work for Arnold there!
To: prarie earth
If you have not seen the movie about this man rent it tonight- it is WORTH IT
can anyone halp me with the name? (sorry)
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:16:14 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(mwk_14059 on yahoo IM - why dont we have a FR chat yet Jim? (i can give you the code))
To: Teacher317
Good observation.
To: Mr. K
To: Mr. K
Stand and Deliver.
The movie has a definate conservative attitude, whether people understand it or not.
To: Teacher317
Jamie's life is better than a movie..
http://www.nthf.org/escalante.htm
To: prarie earth
Good movie.
Doesn't he have a heart problem?
Maybe he can appoint Robert Redford's, the Horse Whisperer, as State Veterinarian.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:19:43 AM PDT
by
xzins
(In the Beginning was the Word)
To: prarie earth
Is it just me or is he pulling a Bush? (getting people that are very good at what they do in their field, coordinating them and actually being effective) One can only hope drastic results will prevail, and maybe Arnie can help to unravel the snafu that has become california
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:21:26 AM PDT
by
paladinkc
(release the inmates and lock me up so they can pay for my vacation! Let them see how they like it!)
To: prarie earth
What? You mean arnie tapped another person who believes reward comes from effort and that asking more than what is expected raises the bar for all????? That bleeding rat bastard liberal!!! How dare he! Doesn't Ahnold he know he's not a REAL conservative but a liberal?????? McClintock's backers tell me so every day!
To: Mr. K
"Stand and Deliver"
Of course the movie covers only the first year of his AP calculus career. Things got bigger and better for quite a while but ultimately LAUSD bureaucracy won out and restored mediocrity.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:22:20 AM PDT
by
hauerf
To: prarie earth
I wish they'd make a movie where the teacher sucks and nobody learns anything.
To: prarie earth
Did he get the teacher or Edward James Olmos?
One never knows in Fantasyland...
To: HamiltonJay
lol, Arnold is such a RINO..appointing a guy who belives that poor kids can pull themselves up by the bootstraps without government aid!
To: bigeasy_70118
They did that... the movie is called "Teachers" starring Nick Nolte.
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posted on
08/27/2003 7:27:06 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
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