RIP Jaime Escalante

[MileHigh]

Famed math teacher in L.A. who was immortalized in "Stand And Deliver."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/legendary-east-la-math-teacher-jaime-escalante-dies.html

 

[rube]

Well that's definitely a bummer – having been in middle school in the 90s, that movie was a staple for what seemed to be at least three separate classes.

We watched too many movies – but for some reason I always remembered that one.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

(I have no idea what this means, but it came up on a google image search for calculus)

RIP.

 

[fishhack2009]

Dang. A great story and one of my favorite movies.

RIP.