The teaching styles of "Stand and Deliver"

I am going to be honest here and admit that I am not a fan of "Stand and Deliver". The plot didn't pull me in at all. I felt disinterested, I could everyone else typing a mile a mile a minute while I sat there with only 5 or 6 sentences. It felt like watching a BBC documentary on the history of tobacco, they grew , they smoked it, and then they added chemicals. Why do I remember all that,  I never even finished watching that show! But back to the point.

Mr. Escalante obviously cares about his students and he is willing to break the rules, or at least bend them, to help them. A great example of this is a scene where one of his students, Angel, comes to him and asks him for an extra book to keep at home so he can study without his "friends" finding out out. Mr. Escalante seems to understand that in high school, at least for most kids, reputation is everything. Another scene uses word problems about the number of girlfriends each "jiggelo" has to keep the students interested. He also intervenes in his students lives outside of class. He is walking through the school when he notices the students grouping around a fight in the yard. According to school rules,  he is supposed to stop the fight but  he sees one of his students, Angel,  and instead stops him from getting involved. When one of his star students, Anna,  drops out to work at the family restaurant he goes there to talk to her father. Even when her father grows angry with him he doesn't back off. He is one of those teacher who is willing to fight for his students.