Soon after Escalante came to Garfield High School, its accreditation wound up undermined. Rather than equipping classes to ineffectively performing understudies, Escalante offered AP Calculus. He had officially earned the analysis of a chairman, who objected to his requiring the understudies to respond to a schoolwork question before being permitted into the homeroom. “He guided me to simply get them inside,” Escalante revealed, “yet I stated, there is no educating, no getting the hang of going on.