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Mrs. Gruwell: Able To Turn A Classroom Of Minority Students

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the movie shows how Mrs. Gruwell was able to turn a classroom of minority students lives around. She was a new teacher, put in a school with an integration program. Her class was filled with minority students, except for one outlier, a shy white kid. Most of the students were in gangs, and weren’t expected to graduate high school, let alone make it to junior year. However, Mrs. Green led these kids down a new path, allowing them to beat the odds and graduate. Mrs. Gruwell fulfills this white savior role, by coming in as a naïve outsider, yet in months was able to learn everything she could about what it was like to be a minority living in dangerous streets, and changing every single kid’s life in her class. A difficult task for anyone, became
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