Freedom Writers!!!!

Love this movie everytime i watch it, it brings tears to my eyes, Ive personally been in classrooms where kids come to class with so much baggage its hard for them to do their work... i could relate to her and her students...I know what its like to revise lesson plans to fit a students needs. Its hard, but its something we as teachers have to do. the purpose of giving these kids an education was to give them hope that they werent going to end up dead on the streets with no where to go, it was giving them a chance to get out and get a higher education and she cared enough to do that. Her role as an educator was to make sure they succeeded, and she couldnt do that by running her classroom normally... she had switch up seating charts, get everybody to get along and try and teach them in ways that they could comprhend. They werent eh kids she intended on teaching but she sure did a  damn good job! She had a huge diversity in her classroom and they were all one for all, all against eachother waiting for one of them to turn their backs... but she worked through it. At first she couldnt manage her classroom at all the students broke out into fights, talked bad about eachother and even disrespected her in hewr own classroom. She was told by a senior teacher that she needed to swich up her ciriculum because the level she had planned was way too high, but by the end of the year she had them reading beyond their reading levels and comprhending evrything they read. She had no respect being a first time teacher, nobody supported her so she did it all on her own by talking to people above her district, people in power. she also took on 2 extra jobs and made her marriage suffer for it. She began buying her own books and shaping her classroom due to her students needs and acedemic placement. Alot of her students rode a bus 90 mins or more to get to school, or lived in foster care or on the streets. she was told not to give much homework because they wouldnt have time to do it anyways, but she made it work, all though all her planning, didnt work she bent and swayed to fit the needs of those kids and thats the definition of a true teacher.... those are the teachers that impact your childs lives, that make them better people, better learners. By junior year most students were said to drop out or stop coming... not her class, not room 203...