Escalante protested, saying that the students had been disqualified because they were Hispanic and from a poor school. Some of the students’ test scores were invalidated by the testing company because it believed that the students had cheated.
In 1982, his largest class of students took and passed an advanced placement test in Calculus. He started an advanced mathematics program with a handful of students. While some had dismissed the students as “unteachable,” Escalante strove to reach his students and to get them to live up to their potential.
He found himself in a challenging situation: teaching math to troubled students in a rundown school known for violence and drugs. In 1974, Escalante took a job at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, California.
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