Does Ms. Gruwell Earn Her Students Respect?
How Does Ms. Gruwell Earn Her Students’ Respect?
In the movie Freedom Writers1, the most serious problem in the class is lacking of respect. Students don’t have respect for each other. And their teacher, Ms. Gruwell, they even hate her. This story happened at Woodrow Wilson High School2 in USA California’s Long Beach3 during 1990s. At that period racial discrimination still prevailed. Gangs4, violence, poverty were full of most people’s life. Erin Gruwell5, a 23-year-old first time teacher, was trying every effort to help her students get away from this kind of tough life. Not only did she have respect for all of her students, she also tried to walk into their inside world.
Showing respect is the prerequisite of earning respect. Ms. G has respect for every of her students. She respects their access to education. When the head teacher refuses to give books to Ms. G’s students for reading, Ms. G uses her own money to buy new books for them. She even takes them a trip to visit the Museum of Tolerance6 and let them have dinner with the holocaust7 survivors. She has no racial …show more content…
In the movie, one student says: “Why should I give my respect to you? Cause you are a teacher? I don’t know you...”10 Then Ms. G asks them to keep a diary every day. Any things happened around them, and any their feelings and thoughts can be written. By reading their diaries, Ms. G has known about the war they are in and what a tough life they are living. Every of them fight for their own. Every of them are struggle to survive. She could feel the great pain they are suffering. She let them play a line game to let them know that they are similar. There is someone else in this world that has the same experience and the same feelings like them. There is someone who knows and cares about them. At least in some way, they are the same. They start to look at the people around them, who they used to seeing as their antagonist, in a respectful
In the movie Freedom Writers1, the most serious problem in the class is lacking of respect. Students don’t have respect for each other. And their teacher, Ms. Gruwell, they even hate her. This story happened at Woodrow Wilson High School2 in USA California’s Long Beach3 during 1990s. At that period racial discrimination still prevailed. Gangs4, violence, poverty were full of most people’s life. Erin Gruwell5, a 23-year-old first time teacher, was trying every effort to help her students get away from this kind of tough life. Not only did she have respect for all of her students, she also tried to walk into their inside world.
Showing respect is the prerequisite of earning respect. Ms. G has respect for every of her students. She respects their access to education. When the head teacher refuses to give books to Ms. G’s students for reading, Ms. G uses her own money to buy new books for them. She even takes them a trip to visit the Museum of Tolerance6 and let them have dinner with the holocaust7 survivors. She has no racial …show more content…
In the movie, one student says: “Why should I give my respect to you? Cause you are a teacher? I don’t know you...”10 Then Ms. G asks them to keep a diary every day. Any things happened around them, and any their feelings and thoughts can be written. By reading their diaries, Ms. G has known about the war they are in and what a tough life they are living. Every of them fight for their own. Every of them are struggle to survive. She could feel the great pain they are suffering. She let them play a line game to let them know that they are similar. There is someone else in this world that has the same experience and the same feelings like them. There is someone who knows and cares about them. At least in some way, they are the same. They start to look at the people around them, who they used to seeing as their antagonist, in a respectful