To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below one of the discussion questions and the suggested answer from the Learning Guide to Stand and Deliver.

One of Mr. Escalante's special qualities was that he had high expectations for his students. (1) What is the importance of a teacher's expectations for his or her students? (2) How do parents' expectations affect the performance of children in school? (3) What role is played by a person's own expectations?

Suggested Response: (1) and (2): If the adults around a child do not have high expectations it will be difficult for the child to have high expectations. (3): But the most important expectations are those that people develop and confirm on their own. [After students answer this question, parents and teachers can note that Anne Frank in her diary entry for July 15, 1944, just a few days before the Nazis found her family's hiding place, said this: "I understand more and more how true Daddy's words were when he said, 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank died in the concentration camps.]