Leo's Heroes

["Allen Flanigan." <Allen.Flanigan@USPTO.GOV>]

Leo Casey writes:

"One of the reasons why I took such great delight and pride in my classes of
inner-city high school students winning city and state championships, and
placing so high in the national rankings, of the We The People competition
was because we had overcome that "comparative advantage," we had beaten the
overwhelming odds against us, and we showed that inner-city kids were
capable . . . "

Don't get mad, Dr. Leo, if I tease you a little; this sounds so much like a
pitch for a movie treatment.  In fact, I think Hollywood is due for another
feelgood movie set in "the blackboard jungle" of American Public Schools;
it's been too long since "Stand and Deliver", that Escalante movie.

So who is going to portray you in the movie?  Gene Hackman, from "Hoosiers?"
Richard Dreyfuss? Wallace Shawn?  Personally, I'd insist on George Clooney
if I were you, although I don't think he can match your rugged good looks .
. .

Honestly, I do admire you for teaching kids to believe in their own
potential, to believe, as Deb puts it, in "the power of their ideas",
regardless of what common stereotypes say about them.  It may seem like a
trite, schmaltzy, Hollywoodish sentiment, but it's an important message for
kids to learn.


Allen F.
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