Cast raises money for real 'Stand and Deliver' math teacher's fight with cancer

[TacticalPeek]

Source: USAToday

Mar 02, 2010
Cast raises money for real 'Stand and Deliver' math teacher's fight with cancer

Cast members from the 1988 film Stand and Deliver are raising money to help cover depleted medical costs for Jaime Escalante, the beloved high school math teacher in the film, who is battling cancer.

Edward James Olmos, who played Escalante in the movie about a barrio teacher in Los Angeles who created a nationally acclaimed calculus program, is behind the fund raising effort.

"The genius that he awakened in the 'unteachable' commanded the attention of the entire world," Olmos saysd on his Web site.

He said 79-year-old Escalante has run out of money to pay his medical bills.

"I have been moved to tears to hear of the circumstances of this great man and am calling for a last National Understanding of his selfless contributions to 'making a difference in this world," Olso writes.

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[TacticalPeek]

1. Edward James Olmos' site for donations

http://www.edwardjamesolmos.com/

[Barack_America]

2. What a great story and film that was.

I was a kid in a very different situation when that film came out, still it encouraged me to value education as a means to better myself, which I have been doing ever since.

I will certainly take a look at the bank balance this month and see if I can help out. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[madrchsod]

3. another beg- a- thon in the world`s best medical system.....

just think of the money that this would raise for a scholarship fund in his name.

we are such a poor country.

[izquierdista]

4. Only in the third world

Do you see a jar and a picture instead of diagnosis and treatment.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Mr Escalante is a great American and he should be honored

and his needs well seen to. It is a shame on this nation that such a man should be in need of money for heath care.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. so much for "the greatest health care system in the world". Eh? and bless Olmos

and may Escalente's heart be warmed by his friends support.