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Rating: Q=5, P=5 / Average OJ
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High School, Los Angeles, Biopic, Empowerment, Discrimination
This is a feel-good movie in the same vein as To Sir With Love and Dangerous Minds--a great teacher that transforms his students. In this case it is 1980s Los Angeles, the majority of students are Hispanic, and the subject that transforms is calculus. A really inspiring story that made me feel a little more hopeful about the problems we face today in the education world--there are devoted and determined people out there that deeply care about young people and their future. I know they still exist and will keep making a difference...despite the rule-makers.
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