Erin Gruwell starts out excited to be a teacher in a new system of integrated students.
She learns quickly that she has no support from the staff as they think the students don't want to learn, and they can just sweep them under the rug because they will all soon give up and stop going.
Students start out with no respect for their teacher. They refer to themselves as being in the dumb class.
Teacher realizes she has no control when students start to fight in the classroom.
It was not what she had expected. teachers didn't seem to concerned with the (OTHER) students education. She was angry, and says maybe if I teach them.
tries to joke and relate with the kids, still has no control when a fight starts outside. She then observes that their is no ingratiation and nobody cares about the students.
She realizes she has to assert some authority and discusses respect with her students after they are caught passing a hurtful note. She also used this incident to start a discussion about the history of gangs as well as the Holocaust, which caught the kids attention.
She went to the school hoping to get materials that the kids would be interested in but soon found that she would have no support from the school.
this movie shows a teacher that faces great adversity and over comes all the road blocks to get through to them. at first the students don't know how to react to someone that actually care about them
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