The Difference Between Garfield and Wellesley...

The difference between the two schools is monumental. They are absolute opposites. While Wellesley is a very uptight, pristine, scholastically upstanding school, Garfield was the exact opposite. Everything about Garfield was low-income, run-down, and hopeless in the eyes of everyone in the community. Wellesley is ran by a bunch of stiff old people who are rich and mean and crude. They have the money to keep the school looking pristine, but don’t really care about anything aside from what people think of them. The teachers at Garfield cared. Not all of them however, but more so than the amount of caring teachers at Wellesley. They had the desire to teach the students, and to bring the school up to the standards it should’ve been at. They only lacked the financial means to do so.

The only similarity between the two schools is the fact that they each had ONE teacher who really, truly made a difference. Wellesley had Ms. Watson, and Garfield had Mr. Escalante. The amount of influence that one person could have is really quite significant; and it shows through the teaching habits of each of them in these movies.