Marco Antonio Tabin Garcia has never left Guatemala. When he was younger, he considered moving to the United States. But he decided against it and instead taught Spanish at a local school in Antigua for over 20 years. But in the past few years, he’s found a way to make a better living, by teaching Spanish lessons over Skype.
Won’t Back Down, out this fall, follows parents trying to wrest control of their school from the school district. It’s a movie-rendition of the real battle playing out across the educational system, where school reformers are confronted vested interests as everyone tries to figure out how to improve America’s school system.