The schools in "Stand and Deliver" and "Dead Poet's Society" have many differences. Welton is a very prestigious, high-end boarding school for boys. The teachers expect nothing but perfection in the students' work. The parents seem to also be very involved with their students’ education at Welton. However, it seems like the parents are putting more stress on the students than the teachers. They want their boys to be doctors, or bankers, or lawyers... Noble work, but hardly passion-inducing.
In "Stand and Deliver", Garfield high school is going under. Their budgets have been cut, and their teachers weren't qualified to teach the subjects they were teaching. The student body consists of gang members and general slackers who don't have any real interest in learning. These students are there because they have to be.
The two schools are very, VERY different. In a private school, the students are paying to be there. Or, their parents are paying at least. So there's tremendous pressure to be perfect, not to mention, the school has plenty of money and resources. In Garfield, the school is terrible. The curriculum is for students far below their grades, and the teachers aren't qualified.
Very true, at Welton they were paying to be there, they wanted to be there (or at least their parents wanted them to), which of course instilled more desire in the students to do well, whereas the students at Garfield had little desire to succeed. Nice comparisons.
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