Woodrow Wilson High School Life

This book was very educational to myself on schools in some tough environments with races being segregated to an extreme extent even in our society today. In my life I have it very differently with our town being mostly white and accepting of every color and race. As in comparison with this neighborhood being very racially divided into gangs of Asians, Mexicans whites and blacks. Hating each other for no real reason except that they were different from each other. But, for the kids in Mrs. Gruwell’s class they got another perspective put on their lives that they didn’t have to be screw ups, like other people in their life and community. The book was a good summary of Erin Gruwell's time at Woodrow Wilson high school through students journals

In these rough parts of Long Beach, California they were living in compared to someplace like Pella they might as well be on separate planets. The city was heavily separated with gangs by race, this carried to the school being separated different people just did not hang out together. I can relate to this very little with our town being very ‘’nice’’ to everyone, with very small minority population I can’t see this making a difference but it is different from a heavily populated minority race in Long Beach. This just makes us more similar in our town this makes me think about the statistics that their are more African Americans In jail than whites. That these poor underdeveloped neighborhoods can lead to pain and suffering in school’s like these. If I were put in a school like this and thrown into a good or bad class just because of my race I would feel highly discrimination towards myself. So, I can’t Imagine how these kids would react they were put in classrooms like Ms. Gruwell's class just because they are black. The kids were put into a tough environment from the start in their lives. I believe this strengthened their ideals and opinions about the books Ms.

The two kids I just described will most likely turn out to be a druggie depressed from being fat and the guy being her husband defending his family and joining a gang to get rid of people trying to hurt him. Then when a teacher like Ms. Gruwell steps in it can make a complete turnaround in this kids life with having a positive role model to look up to and keep them on pace with life towards the right direction. With all one hundred and fifty students graduating high school and most going to college a great teacher can make a change for the better in a student's life. This book makes me think a lot about roles in people's lives and how they affect others I think this book was written to show teachers how much good they can do in a student's life to change kids for the better for years. Likewise students can see what kind of work teachers go to, to make our lives better each and every