With teachers like you their can be a difference in the next generation, instead of all the hate i have seen. Yet you cared about them, you wanted to see them break the cycle that was set in their lives. I am sure that you knew that if you helped them and encouraged them their might be conflicts with other teachers,and students. That not only took a lot of guts, because of what could have happened to you, but that also must have taken a lot of heart.

You supported them when everyone else put them down. You also supported them an encouraged them to do the what was right. Sometimes that is all someone needs, someone to listen and be there for them. You took the time to listen to your students, you took the time understand them and be there for them, when everyone else thought that there was no point in investing in them. I believe you and your students are an inspiration to me, and many other children, an even many teachers. I felt as if i was reading one of my own diaries. I certainly did find myself in The Freedom Writer Diary. Just like you told your students that they might find them selves in the books they read. As i read the book tears rolled down my cheeks, because as i read i found my self in the pages. I admire you for not giving up on the 'below average' students. I am truly amazed at what you have accomplished for your students. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers. The authors' proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers' college tuition. With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college. Secretary of Education Richard Riley-and educationally.

With funds raised by a 'Read-a-thon for Tolerance,' they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell's students were 'the real heroes.' Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition-appearances on 'Prime Time Live' and 'All Things Considered,' coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the 'Freedom Writers' in homage to the civil rights activists 'The Freedom Riders.' So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust-only to be met by uncomprehending looks. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of 'unteachable, at-risk' students. Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.

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