Freedom Writers
This is another motivating movie for teacher trainees like us. Stars Hillary Swank and Patrick Dempsey, this movie is based on the true story of a teacher, Erin Gruwell who manages to work it out for students who come from different cultural backgrounds, principles and beliefs in which they become rebellious and dangerous to others in the school. The racial segregation in the school has led to the students become wild and unmanageable by teachers. Therefore Erin Gruwell puts a great effort to overcome the problem by encouraging her students to step-by-step changing their attitudes and their principles of ethnocentrisms by having them speak up via writing journals.
Overall we can conclude that the students are lacking of attention and affection they deserve from their families besides having experienced tragedies that killed their family members or someone close to them.
The teacher, Ms.Gruwell has been discouraged by the principal herself because the school’s administrators do not see any effective ways to change the students into better persons. However she manages to conquer the problem although she ends up being at stake when she and her husband are on the verge of divorce.
This story provides us with something which is very enlightening especially for someone like me who is going to be a teacher in the future. The character tells us how to tackle such problem, how to keep faith to ourselves, how to remain passion towards the profession as a teacher despite all the challenges and many others.
Nevertheless in my opinion, although what has been done by Erin Gruwell is something sanity but not all teachers can actually follow her steps as different teachers have different approaches in overcoming the problems regarding students. Sometimes in the middle of the story, it crosses my mind that this story is like too-good-to-be-true. It does happen in the real world (of course it does---this is based on true story) but it could be something which is one-in-a-million. Overall this story does motivate us a lot in terms of the main character’s passion of teaching and the benefits of writing journals as a medium to speak your mind.
*there are some parts in the story bring laughter to us…I do not know why…
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