Freedom Writers Diversity

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I chose “The Freedom Writers” from the movie list. I had not seen this movie before this assignment and I was surprised I missed it before now. This movie was not only about the diversity in a school setting but about a new teacher who went above and beyond to provide the opportunity for her to gain an education when all odds were against all of them. The main problems that these students were facing racial segregation, poverty, and educational bias. This movie was sad and inspiring because of the struggles of the students and the story of a teacher who would not give up on these kids like everyone else had. The movie began showing the violent images of the 1992 Rodney King riots in Long Beach California. These students had grown-up in the middle of this hatred dividing the neighborhoods and even sections of the streets because of race and gangs. This movie was put together from the diaries of these students who had a successful day if they survived. Once the introduction gave the viewer an introduction into the lives of these students the attention was shifted to a new teacher sitting down with a department head excited to begin …show more content…

The school made very little available to these students and viewed themselves as babysitters until the students dropped out of school. The school also considered these minority students to be “dumb” and not capable of learning and simply not interested in gaining an education. One teacher in this school stepped up to prove that the school bias was wrong and without the school’s support provided these students with not only an education but the personal support they really needed. Opening many people’s eyes to real possibilities. This teacher turned around not only the students’ opinions of themselves but other’s opinions about them as

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