Here Comes The Boom Inspired Me

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If you haven't watched the movie, I recommend you watch it. It's a story about a Biology teacher who was once very passionate in teaching but caught up in a rotten system, and decided to be mediocre, then eventually lost his fire for teaching. There was an assembly of teachers and the principal announced that they are cutting the music program, which means removing the livelihood of a man who is having a baby. The main man, Scott, stood up for his colleague and said they would raise the money to save the music program. Having his regular job, and night classes for those who are hoping for an American citizen were not enough to raise the amount. Then, he involved himself to a previous UFC fighter after he agreed to teach him after night class to make him pass the citizenship exam. He learned after that he could raise the money if he participates in a fight. So initially he was there to lose, and just get the money but then he got better and better, and he won and won, and was invited for the real UFC fight. Before the fight, they learned that the money they were saving was ran by another administrator who was holding it. He was ready to lose the fight and get the remaining balance to complete the amount, but now he had to win to pay it full. He was no match for the professional fighter for the first two rounds, but because of the strength he got from the people who believed in him, especially the children who was hoping for the music program to be saved, and a soon-to-be-dad to be not jobless, he fought and won the match. I was inspired by this movie because I wanted to be a passionate teacher. A teacher with a cause. A teacher who has this passion to make his students better people. A teacher who will make them love to learn, and do better. Maybe I won't result to joining a UFC match because I am never going to win anyway with this weak body, but I believe I could something else if ever I get the chance to teach again.