Period! And, nowadays, that's too hard to find someone like her (imma legal scholar, and I admit it!)

She is family in a way

She’s a teacher that cares a lot more than other PARENTS*

@@oathbreaker5279 i"m absolutely and completely agree with you🤷🏻😢🤷🏻Happy new year 2021🎆i wish you God may bring you all your dreams come true🌻💛🌻 God bless you and bless all your beautiful family today tomorrow and always❤🌹🙏🏻🌹❤

Legit

Oh I did back in elementary my teacher stick on me for doing school work in homework...

We are all victims of circumstance and the problem is that most people don't believe that

You can change that.

@@syn8666 King Solomon said "time and circumstance happen to us all".

@@njgl2010 king Solomon was very wise. I know he was the richest but wasn't he the wisest as well? Or am I mistaken

Critique is essential to thought.

this has more than 200 to 1 like to dislike ratio. most normal vids have 80 to 1

Maybe they dislike the editing bc i find it disturbes the story

Dislike Bots are a thing

If 150 is possible, then 72 would be 2x easier lol

What's the title of the movie?

@@kakira-sama I don't know. It stars Hilary Swank I believe.

@@kakira-sama it’s called “freedom writers”

@@kakira-sama Freedom Writers.

There's another good one called "Beyond the Blackboard."

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I'm sorry you didn't have that in your life. I believe in you tho! Whatever it is you can do this

Maybe someday you will be that person to others..

I'm not a fan of those jokes. What kids need is a good leader who believes in them regardless of the color of that leader's skin is.

I lived that too. I didnt meet a great teacher like this till my first year in community college. My english teacher could see my incomplete education. He stayed and helped me. Helped me write my college admission to his university and I got in. He was the oldest teacher at 85. It was nice to sit with a grandpa and go slower to learn. I learned! I wish a good teacher for everyone as it will change your life. It did for me.

Amen, black, arab, white, brown, yellow, we’re all human beings

@@Shrek-pu8uu Yellow..? 😰😰

​@Shrek-pu8uu you are right but please don't call asians yellow

@@Goldberry235but blacks and whites are ok? Hypocrite

Sounds like bullshht

It was a pretty good movie. IMO Hillary Swank’s best role

That movie was good at first I didn’t knew this was a real teacher...

Well said. I loved this movie.

I loved this movie!! I'm not afraid to say I cried

Thank you for the title 😇

That's so good god 🙏 she is good

That's amazing of you thank you for helping kids out. May you have the impact to change the kids lives let them know that they can do better. Most importantly teach them that love is unconditional please do that for me make them understand resilience and god. John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. And Jeremiah 29:11 for i know the plans I have for you declares the lord plans to prosper you not to harm (fail) you plans to give you hope and a future.

Exactly, good on you to catch that and make something out of it

Anybody who tries to teach math is already fighting a battle.

@dave goland obviously she is working not for moneh but for knowledge... Well i would to do the same with you xD

so so true, my little brother was in 'alternative education ' for 'unruly kids'. he had no chance at school who never saw his different learning abilities..hands on learning. he now drives coaches for a manager who saw his potential😊

Got me in tears over here😭

Maria actually became a teacher. She did an interview in 2011 where she talks about her story.

@Win Big with Lena & Mike no strangers aren't those kids parents, but if no one stands up for them, no one believes in them enough to show kindness, human compassion, love & a better way to grow up, then what will happen to those kids? Become hardened criminals, go to prison, end up 6' under? Their criminal ways are going to affect a lot people. The citizens where those kids ultimately get locked up are paying for them to stay locked up. Which is better, paying a little now (w/time, effort & some monetary resources) or paying a lot later (from the crimes they have committed, lives changed for the worse, maybe some deaths, and yes again monetary resources)? Which would be better, someone like Maria who became a teacher herself, a productive member of society, giving back to underprivileged kids, or a felon either locked up for life or out on the streets commiting more crimes against society? I pick the ounce of prevention over the pound of cure. Help these kids, care about them, connect w/them, show them something better, even if you are originally a stranger, you won't be one for long.

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America is ranked the lowest in education. That’s when I found out it’s the system not the students that’s the probelm

No its the parents

@@openingshift7070That’s 100% wrong, you need to do a bit more research and stop listening to propaganda. I know you wrote this a year ago but I just had to chime in on this constant misinformation that gets spread around all because America has been made the world’s scapegoat.

Strongly agree with you. The school and education programs are bad and leave a lot of kids behind with very little support in areas that they need it most.

​@openingshift7070 Because of teachers like this Gruwell character. Don't you remember from her movie; "I want you to give yourselves the grade you feel you deserve."

And not just survive...but thrive. Im personally sick of "'surviving."

@@shellyslioneyes 💞👏👏👏

Agreeeeee

and the best teachers seem to be the ones who dont just teach u about the subject, they teach you about life, and life is so much more than school.

Pray that by GOD's grace, we find the right one in many wrong ones...

Hope u make it through♡

Sa dude

And we're cheering you on. Thank you!

Don't give up. Most days you aren't going to make progress and you'll feel like you're smacking your head off the wall. Getting through to kids isn't easy, especially troubled kids with rough home lives. They've been taught by their experiences to never trust anyone, especially adults. Earning their trust will be difficult, but ultimately if you change the life of just one kid, you will have succeeded. Good luck.

@@tylerheinrichs2806 as a teacher, I needed this

That's awful, I'm sorry that happened to you.

@@DianaLopezDlo Bless you. Thank you so much.

@@missrita1826 man, some people should just not be teachers. Sorry that had to happen to you, cause it really shouldn't. Honestly, it's sad when people like this are allowed to educate children.

@@kella_rt653 Come to find out that he had a nervous break down and was in a mental hospital for a while. It still pops up in my mind sometimes. Thank you so much.

@@EverHeartK98 You are a brave soul. So sorry you had to go through trama like that. You are a special person, a somebody that is not dumb, remember that. Somebody thay take stupidity out on us is going through things and then take it out on us, so we are not dumb. Hold your head up high and be proud of yourself. You are special. Just love and be easy on yourself. Take care.

I'm sure they are many if only the system n parents would show them the respect they deserve n let them to what they're are meant to do, guide and prepare children

Yes there is and its the English teacher most of the time. Like what is that? 😂

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Thank you.May God Always bless you😊

Thank you and so do you

Thank you.

Thanks for this

@@Desi1992 my pleasure keep safe :)

True

@@mxiivx7610 GREAT, that means you can differentiate real from unreal and also comfortable with TRUTH

It's wrong, and it's not necessary. We need higher minimum wages, better job security and benefits, food security, and health insurance for everyone. It'd be a start.

Bless you, Hero!

The words to identify one's occupation do not get capitalized: janitor, engineer, teacher, and even art therapist.

Yesss!!!

Good for you!

Yep. I love that movie!

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Oh I love Matilda 🥺

Facts

Keep going don’t give up 🙏🏻♥️♥️

I’m proud of you keep it going buddy👌🏾💛

Badass.

What has you being white got to do with this? Especially since England is predominantly white so your skin colour is in no way a barrier to getting higher grades

M0moio0

Yes, but under that, the bullying in Japan is said to be some of the worst.

@@wxsteri2580 in Japan you can't even be unique, people are just copies of each other because if you speak up and say your opinion and it's different from others you'll get picked on

Japan has good root education but has a very bad society. In Japan you can't be unique, you don't have a voice against society, you can't be a minority. If you want to see countries where humanity is the core of society, go to third world countries.

That is one way.

@@eidokun yep only poor understand the value of humanity because when we are nothing we have each other

You are loved 💥💞💞💞

We need stronger, younger leaders. Not these old, feeble politicians.

@@foolslayer9416 we need leaders with the wisdom of Jesus Christ, IMO. He frees all who learn to follow Him.

@Chad Kyle we were limited on options babe

No, politics will ruin her pure heart

@Chad Kyle , so biden is a racist but somehow we fail to see how trump very well maybe... I see. Strangely enough how trump has not not will ever take credit for the high unemployment he bares much responsibility for 2020 & 2021 unemployment. Would you be willing to place credit where it belongs? Understandably trump can only be held responsible for his actions, reaction or lack thereof to the pandemic, bailing out of multimillion/billion dollar companies and their owners even as they fired our laid people off! EVEN SHORTLY after he so very generously gave billions the thrice failed rEAGAN-omics, ALL taxpayer funded bailouts! Wonder why China has our axx in a sling! Now, I kno this POS took credit for many things or at least attempted to, clearly it worked more on some of us than others. The low unemployment numbers can not be attributed to trump, of we recall correctly or are honest with ourselves we can remember trump taking credit in January of 2017. Impossible for the economy or employment statistics to make such an INSTANT turnaround; regardless of the direction - whether positive or negative. Completely impossible. The stock market rallying is altogether another animal, not that is trust those numbers either. To be fair if the economy and employment numbers were garbage in January of 2017, after trump had taken possession of the White House I would not be placing blame on trump and I think we'd be hard pressed to take credit but yet had no problem taking credit for what obama's administration accomplished. Not that I subscribe to the belief that the low unemployment numbers were as a result of anything obama did either, the economy has simply been on a slow recovery from 2007/2008 crash. Now to be clear altho the numbers for unemployment are more accurate today than 2017 when obama left office and trump took credit they are always, with rare exception, manipulated in many ways. One such eg. is counting an individual employed even if they are not employed full-time, in my experience it is seldom the person employed part-time whom is able to thrive, in fact 2 to 3 jobs is often required in the certain states, son this will be the norm. So again if anyone is deserving of credit it would certainly not be trump not obama but rather the people of this nation no matter whether citizens, documented or undocumented for they, their spirits are resilient and powerful. There is a reason why someone like trump is a 1 term president and why the law had to be changed for a FOUR term President such as FDR!

Amen. Praise be to The Father.

This has nothing to do with this?

Ik we are lucky as frick

Lord... Me 3

I applied for a restaurant job once and they gave me a personality test to see if I'd be good with people. I answered the questions honestly and failed the test. So the manager let me take it again and told me to put the answers I thought they wanted to hear. I got the job, loved it, and was great at it. Never feel bad about being honest. I'm sorry it kept you from that particular job, but I'm a teacher now and if you have a heart for teaching I hope you'll keep pursuing it. Just like this woman was the right teacher for these students, somewhere there are students who need a teacher just like You.

Don't give up! You may need time, experience, or any of a combination of factors to bring you back to the classroom. Be proud for trying and realize that this calling may take time to cultivate. Or your calling may be in a different direction. What matters most is that you care and caring can be expressed in many different ways.

Try again!!!! ❤️

I have that too and wanna be a teacher. Note taken.

As a teacher with diagnosed anxiety, ptsd, bpd and depression. Don't give up! You already care so much. That is what kids need most.

How did that help you? Where are you now?

@@Wewereneveryoung alive. That is a serious achievement for certain demographics.

@@classicambo9781 ikr what a dumb question he answer lol..

@@DubBeats I think he meant that mentally. Like "How are you doing now."

@@Wewereneveryoung I was working but got lay off after I got seasonal i about too get another job my teacher die rip too her but greatest teacher every had as a kid...

How was the experience? I would love to have received her autograph!

That happened to me too! She came to guest speak at my college on orientation day. I still have it in my home

i knew this cooment is 10 months and we & my teacher had fun in the Virtual classrooms sure we could hide our cameras & mute but we played educational games and challenegs from kahoot to Quiziz, the homeworks are flexible & easy to track on what we miss, we could talk face to face and discuss, take a show around of our pets, make funny backround filters and watched movies and analyze them virtually the whole virtual class made us realize after 1 half year of isolation people i dint know (im a loner yet smart kid that likes to ask questions/make interesting points to keep a subject interesting with my peers) love to see eachother our school made at least anice preparation to clean, given a nice environment to change to have hybrid learning or still online.. what is surprising is the online class had given a drop on shootings, we sure love it as some classmates even shared their numbers or instagram/twitter @s we could follow and keep an eye on. i support virtual teaching so bot teachers & students are safe and both can catchup on subjects (leftover class recorded videos anytime can be watched later or do later works) dont use this againt a health policy to break, we had differing feels and culture since the 90s (im born 2000s kid and graduated recently) my most memorable event is the whole virtual year and internally cry on graduation face to face as i knew i wont see my fave teachers again & classmates again. tahnks to the work of Gruwell schooling since i first entered was easier to me and exciting unlike from my third world country back home was whole Draconic and even cases of abuse by teachers made to students. 2nd, i almost become suicidal to even daydreaming depressingly of being a school shooter (luckily i dint give in and too poor to my family buying a gun is taboo or worse an arsonist) but because of my Crush who i contrasted had the worse suffering than me (i lived in a good home, hardworking college educated parents, good food and finally away from my home country which i now currently miss after 7 years) from a ADHD with an ear infection, din't know the purpose of free lunch meals was given to her (she was qualified to to her family's low income status) and gave the apples & milk to me, played games on my phone and both of us look like weird outcasts on the cafeteria, din't know she was "teased" of her odd vocabulary (which i understood) and combined with great teachers and even one favorite counselor i loved every history class, my funny indian teacher in engineering, the 2 english teachers who willing to listen on my tirades of every book they gave me and the math teacher who dint ignore me and get me the help when my mind was cloudy of the sadness due to my fear of failing & disappointment (traumatized back home & the whole facade of the smart asian kid who just procrastinates) yet i stood up and even loved my pyschology clas sthat i seen different perspectives and go to explore the world virtually of our social problems to society and go help and support the same way i saw to defend my friend crush she is not different but a person to me and the school our home and we love dto share our dreams of succeeding (both of us are girls yet i lost touch due to my phone got water damage, forgot password for 2 years and contacts cleared that i lost her number...)

Try music therapy?

What's the title of the movie?

@@maridethdiaz6568 Freedom Writers

Are You A Jew or Zoroastrian

@@ADeeSHUPA Neither.

@@AbuFarouq نَيْسْ

@@ADeeSHUPA Why would he be any of the two, and why does it matter? Umar Ibn al-Khattab is a Muslim.

As a teacher, your comment breaks my heart. I pray you receive comfort for your loss amd please dont give up on learning and where it can take you

I'm sorry. But you know Jesus loves you forever.

Have you watched the movie based on this story... she gave up her life to focus on her students....the movie is called (Freedom writer)

That is a good movie.

Jaime Escalante taught for decades in the inner-city. Erin never did. Don't compare the two. Jaime was an awe inspiring teacher who challenged his students. Erin was taught in a predominantly all white high school surrounded by million dollar homes. She fabricated a racist version of what she thought inner-city teaching was like. Then she got her book deal and movie and quit teaching at that high school. The yearbook is published online from when she taught there. She's a fraud.

@@-Subtle- I just wanted to bring up Jaime Escalante, because everyone is hyping her up, but no one is talking about him. So I thought of bringing up to peoples attention. Plus the movie is actually represented by a Hispanic, instead of the typical “white savior “. Erin id also Hispanic, but in the movie she was represented by a white person. Since everyone gets so sensitive now a days, I want to clarify that there’s nothing wrong with being white, I just which minority heroes were actually represented by an actor or actress of the same background. Why not give them the opportunity when is plenty of people who can represent us?

She never gave up on them she could of quit but she didn’t she want them too prove those people wrong in success...

Everybody not prefect some kids not prefect some don’t want an education some want too stick be a gang member don’t care about another people but you have an teacher that care never want them too failed too me Erin gruwell was a best teacher...

@layla Mcdonald unfortunately, often times people believe that poverty is a choice, that poor people are just lazy. This goes back to the days of Reagan and the mythical "Welfare Queen." He actually blamed the poor for being poor. He accused black women of purposely getting themselves pregnant for a welfare check. He was right about one thing only: the poor families will pass the poverty onto their own children. If you are born into poverty, you are more likely to drop out of school. Then came forty years of defunding education to the point schools are in disrepair, there aren't enough books, the schools are overcrowded. Teachers become the scapegoats to society's problems, so another war begins on public education and teachers. Prior to Reagan, America had one of the best public school systems in the world. They were teaching children how to think critically, producing scientists, doctors, nurses, and a generation of kids who went to college free or nearly free. This in turn produced a strong, vibrant middle class. This was possible because back then public schools and public colleges were fully funded through federal government and state government. The money came from taxes, in which the rich were taxed at 70%. Reagan changed all that. He crafted the lie of trickle down economics, saying if you cut taxes on the very rich, the money will trickle down to the rest of us with jobs and raises. Neither happened. He decided education should be funded by local property taxes, and not the govt. He decided ketchup is a vegetable in order to cut school lunch program. It was deliberate and by design. If you consistently cut school funding, if you berate teachers, schools fall apart, teachers will be unable to teach kids how to think critically about the world around them. College will become unattainable and you keep the poor where they belong. The result is multiple generations of kids who either drop out of school or graduate without the basic skills in reading, writing, math. Take away the unions, cut the hourly pay, and attach things like healthcare to employment. The result is majority of people cannot change jobs and cannot save money. The added bonus of this assault on education is that people can no longer tell when they are being lied to. They believe the propaganda as the truth. Rather than thinking about the world around you and developing ideas for improvement and demanding fairness or justice of equal rights, you accept the status quo and believe nothing can be better. You're being told what to think instead of how to think. You brag that Americans have certain constitutional rights, and don't understand that you have been denied human rights your entire life. America is the ONLY country that believes more in profit than life itself. America ranks 37 in healthcare, 27 in education, 46 in democracy, 47 in women's rights, and 78 in worker's rights. We rank number one in weapons of mass destruction. We'd rather kill people around the world than help people here at home.

@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 wow I didn't know that abt reagen. Well put👏

Born into poverty. Born into violence. Had to become a parent at an early age. This did not happen to me, but those are just a few reasons why it happens.

That's good. I hope you'll use that feeling to be more compassionate in the future.

Which is exactly why I'm in college to become a teacher. Gen Z are going to be the best teachers, they know exactly what's up

Their eyes are closed because they dont feel the Love and mercy of God

What was your fav part of the movie? Also, did you ever read The Diary of Anne Frank yourself?

I think the real story is even more inspirational than the movie!

They deserve more than praise on national level....Not every person sacrifice and dedicate there life to change other people's life 🤝

What's the name of the movie??

@@saniaparihar8813 whoops sorry I meant to write haven't not have

@@jenniferlopez6839 no problem

@@saniaparihar8813 I believe it's called "Utter Bullshit so White People Feel Good About Themselves." It features: racist black stereotypes, a white woman who has never taught in an inner-city school who thinks herself a white savior, a complete fabrication of a story that plagiarizes Dangerous Minds (a different white woman's daydreams about inner-city educating). It's written by Erin Gruwell, a teacher who quit after a few years. She dreamt up the plot while teaching at Woodrow Wilson High School, a predominantly white high school syringes by million dollar homes.

@@-Subtle- 👍👍 I got the movie it's called wisdom writers

Feeling something for does not mean pity. It just means you see the potential despite their facades. The relationships built are real. Who the f mentioned pity? Im kind of pitying you for thinking that.

@@preshvilla5182 Watch the video, ma'am and see this woman's pity face. Sympathy and empty *DO* something productive. Pity does not. But, whilst we are on the topic of pity, why so flustered, Presh? Really, that's the question I'd like you to answer. Also, how does pity or feelings help in this situation? Really, I'm interested in your POV.

@@thatgirl5703 Do not call me ma'am. Of course I watched the video and I'm a teacher in juvenile hall. It's not pity. It's horror sometimes. You can't believe the lives these kids haved had to endure...but that is not pity. You view these kids as survivors and you watch and see strengths. You see potential. Gruel empowered her students, by allowing them to express their struggles, by acknowledging them, and then, she gave them examples of others who endured hardships. I mean did you watch the video? Sounds like your projecting your own experiences into what you're watching. Just like flustered. Who is flustered? Lol. Sorry you've never had an empowering teacher. (That is pity)

@@preshvilla5182 Okay, I won't call you ma'am. If you read any of what I have written on this thread, I am not denying that many kids live through gross negligence and unfathomable trauma. I've seen it first hand and lived through it myself. I've also had amazingly beautiful and supporting teachers and coaches who are largely responsible for my successes. That said, they did not act as this teacher did. Likewise, they managed their own lives so as to dramatically help the lives of their students. They did not, however, re-narrativize my trauma, nor ever pity me. Rather, they taught me like any other student even if they were allowing me to crash at their place when things were harder than usual. More importantly, they nurtured my intelligence and resilience so I could break through many negative cycles in my family. In fact, they made sure that I knew I was capable of gaining college admission, full ride scholarships and planted the seeds to educate myself as well as I could, and I have. So, you have made many incorrect assumptions. I'm interested as to why and as to why teaching your students regardless of their difficulties is so triggering to you, and many others. Really teaching is caring, loving and empathic.