Racial Discrimination In The Ap Exam

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Every year many students take what is known as an AP exam, short for Advanced placement. AP exams are known as very challenging and rigorous exams but if passed can provide the student with a chance at obtaining college credit. In the film Stand and Deliver we meet various students who struggle with coming into terms as to what hard work is and the sacrifices that come along with it. Along the way many of Mr. Escalates students who are learning Calculus stumble across everyday life problems but learn that they’re capable of learning something new and making someone proud. Throughout the way Mr. Escalate notices that his Calculus students are bound by a major status that perceives them to be the typical minority group that isn 't capable of
Escalante’s students completed their Ap exam, they manage to the surprise of many score well above the average. Their excellence in their Calculus exam arises suspicion from the ETS officials, which causes them to think that the students of Garfield high school who took the exam had cheated their way up. This is known as racial discrimination because the ETS officers were quick to judge the students with cheating based on the fact that they were from a minority or of Hispanic/ Latino background. The students were accused because the officers as well as those who worked in the school felt like the students were incapacitated or incapable of obtaining that amount of success on a nationwide exam that is proven to be difficult. As said by Dr. Pearson, “There are two kinds of racism, Mr. Escalante—judging a group because they are a minority, and not judging a group because they are a minority” meaning that if he judged a minority he would be characterized as a racist and if he didn’t it would seem he favored them simply because they are a minority. The simple fact that Mr. Escalante’s students belonged to a racial minority groups was enough for the ETS officers to doubt the student’s intelligence because at first the Ap calculus students were part of gangs or right near the point of dropping out making them seem uninterested. The fact that the calculus students didn’t look or act the way a student from a more prestigious school would, made them seem as though they held no such ambitions or aspirations in

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