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Mrs. Erin Gruwell was a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in the early 1990s who taught a class of at-risk students in room 203. These students came from difficult backgrounds and experiences with racism, violence, and poverty. Mrs. Gruwell worked tirelessly to gain their trust, taking on extra jobs to buy them journals and books. She brought Holocaust survivors and others to speak to the class to teach them about tolerance. Through her dedication and refusal to give up on her students, she changed their lives and beliefs, helping them feel accepted for who they are.

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Mrs

Mrs. Erin Gruwell was a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in the early 1990s who taught a class of at-risk students in room 203. These students came from difficult backgrounds and experiences with racism, violence, and poverty. Mrs. Gruwell worked tirelessly to gain their trust, taking on extra jobs to buy them journals and books. She brought Holocaust survivors and others to speak to the class to teach them about tolerance. Through her dedication and refusal to give up on her students, she changed their lives and beliefs, helping them feel accepted for who they are.

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1. Mrs. Erin Gruwell or commonly called as Mrs. G is one of a kind teacher.

She teaches at
Woodrow Wilson High School which was recognized as high-achieving school but during the early 90s,
the school launched an integration program where teaching discipline and obedience was a primary
concern. She is a teacher full of hope who changed the lives of her students at room 203. She never give
up on discovering what she really loves to do and that is to help her students by accepting them as who
they are. She is a wife married to Scott which eventually led to divorce because of her temporary job.

2. All of the students at room 203 have sorrowful experiences in their lives. All of them are wild,
bold and brave because of what the white people have done them. Most of them think school as a waste of
time and eventually stop studying. Most of them know someone, a friend or a relative who is at juvenile
hall or jail while some have entered it already. Some knows where to get drugs and someone in a gang.
Some have lost someone dear to them. And because they are black people, they experience things that
white people have power. They feel like they have been degraded down according to their race and so
they rebel and make others think of them worse and can’t be trusted. They are hungry for acceptance.
They keep on judging that white people are all the same.

3. Woodrow Wilson High School is a high-achieving 4-A type of school. However, in the early 90s,
the school launched an integration program where teaching discipline and obedience was a primary
concern. From there you could meet Hispanic, Asian and African American students.

4. Woodrow Wilson High School used to have one of the highest scholastic records in the district,
but since voluntary integration was suggested, they have lost over 75% of their strongest students

5. Because of Mrs. Gruwell’s eagerness and determination to open their iron-walled hearts, she did
a lot of things just to make them feel that all of them are the same, that they should not feel bad about
being black. Mrs. G. intercepts a racist drawing by one of her high school students and utilizes it to teach
them about the Holocaust. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to
record their diaries wherein they could talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends
die and being evicted. Determined to reform her high school students, Mrs. Gruwell takes on two part-
time jobs just to pay for more books not to mention that the institution is not supporting her expenses and
spends a lot more time in school resulting to her husband’s disappointment of having lack of time and
attention. Mrs. Gruwell invites various Jewish Holocaust survivors to talk with their class about
their experiences and requires the students to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance. One of the
students said that “I can’t believe Mrs. G. did all of these for us”. In class, when reading The Diary of
Anne Frank, they invite Miep Gies, the woman who sheltered Anne Frank from the German soldiers, to
talk to them by raising money. These are proofs that she cares for her students! She actually do things not
because of what their races are but because of who they are and she wants them to be felt accepted.

6. For me, a good teacher is one of a kind. The most important thing a teacher should be is to accept
his or her students no matter who they are. Just like in the film, the scenario is very touching simply
because the teacher accepted her students not because of what their races they have but because of who
they are. Also, a teacher should not be biased. He or she should be fair enough to all his or her students.

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18. It is such a great decision for her to sill be the English teacher of her students during the Junior
Year simply because no one could replace her. All the things that she sacrificed, the bonds and the
memories between each one of them couldn’t be replaced. The time that she committed, her will,
eagerness and determination will never be replaced by anyone. And for that, she changed the beliefs and
principles of her students. She is the only one who made them realize that they are accepted, that their
voices inside their hearts can be heard. The exact reason of what the room 203 is looking for. Room 203
has made a bond with Mrs. Gruwell and it is as if no one could break it.

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