How the schools from "Stand and Deliver" and "Dead Poets Society" Differ

The school in “Stand and Deliver” and the school in “Dead Poets Society” differ in many ways.  Garfield High school from stand and deliver is a poor school with students that don’t really care about their grades or their futures. When Mr. Escalante initially went to the school to teach he was supposed to be teaching a computer class but they didn’t have enough money for computers. So he taught math instead. When Mr. Escalante wanted to push the kids and see what they were capable of the other teachers had no faith in what he wanted for the students and did not plan on them succeeding. In fact when they did succeed the school board did not believe them, since they were such a poor school with no history of proving what they were capable of. Now at Welton Academy in “Stand and Deliver” the school board would never doubt the student’s success. The kids all have opportunities and teachers that believe in them and expect nothing but the best. The students maintain good grades; and listen to their teacher and elders. The school is very nice and the “privileged kids” go there since it is one of the best schools in the country. Both of the schools differ very much but, in the way they kids are alone in stand and deliver because they have few people in their lives that believe in them. The students and Welton are alone in the sense that they are not able to have their own opinion on what they want to do with their life. They just have to do as their told and study their math, English, science etc. So one school has more money than the other and is highly recommended but the kids still need to be able to experience joys in life that they choose to do themselves.