The Sequel That Will Never Be Made

Novelist/screenwriter/PJTV pundit Andrew Klavan looks back at Jaime Escalante, the teacher so memorably portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. Klavan’s article is all about what happens after the credits roll and the film is over:

The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the US, and its sister union, the American Federation of Teachers, is also huge.  With their Democratic allies, they make the firing of bad teachers almost impossible and the work of good teachers heartbreakingly difficult.  Then, ironically, they trade on the good will generated by men like Jamie Escalante and by movies like Stand and Deliver, knowing that, in Democratic Hollywood, the anti-union sequel will never be made.

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