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  • Im going to Perry Meridian High School next year

  • Fuck! Where do I begin!? This is exactly what NEEDS to be taught! Where in the world has CHANGE occurred by not saying FUCK, SHIT, MOTHER-FUCKER, etc. etc.??? My ex-wife is a teacher and I kind of wish I would have paid more attention to her, to me (early in my life - but I wouldn’t have met her), to life, etc., but I can’t go back and change my life but KIDS, IF I COULD I WOULD GO BACK AND DO IT ALL OVER FOR THE BETTER!!!

  • White Trash School Board! I hate them - they are racist! The book and movie is wonderful and inspiring. I'm sure there are worse things on TV and in the movie theaters that kids these days are watching. This book was presented as a educational resource - how can the school board be so stupid!

  • The freaking bord at school is so freaking stupid!!!

  • I LOVE her answer and her face expression at 1:55 to his question about the "graphic" language in the book. "It's the way they talk" lol I had a cool, understanding, very interactive English teacher like this in high school. Very understanding of the world around her and very inspirational. we need more teachers like this if schools want to keep there students in class rooms.

  • I wonder if any of the opposers ever even read it.

  • If you raise your children without using foul language, they will learn it on the school bus anyway! So just because it is in a book, that does not mean that it is going to make them start saying it. The child makes a choice period. The movie was truely inspirational for me and the real world happens everyday whether we like it or not. So be strong and be a positive example to others who have no hope or optimism. Go Connie - You asked the parents 149 agreed and they are who SHOULD have they say

  • ALways found that asian girl soo hot.

  • schools are suppose to teach children about all walks of life...including the ones that are not from rich white communities who apparently never uses the f** word.

  • what up with freedom????.........

  • School Boards = Hippos who care more about their fat pay stubs and causing problems than actually helping kids. Did you see the board members--I don't think one of them was not in a stinking 100 dollar outfit or were not looking like middle-class.

  • she the fuch up they just like tht lady tht was in the movie

  • Thought it was a FREE country guess not -_-

  • wtf? just say the fuckin word instead of blank!!! it so annoying everyone will know this word sooner or later... and the school board is stupid... its a book!!!!! it happened in real life!!!

  • That is Fucked up that they did that to that book. Its one of my favorite books.

  • @SSW8040 kids.need.it.just cause they arnt from the city dosnt mean they dont go through things that Freedom Writers did

  • WTF

  • The book should be replaced with "1984" or "Fahrenheit 451", both of which will illustrate for them what small-minded individuals like this school board would like the world to be like.

    Sad.

  • How can people be so stupid I don't see why she couldn't have it in the class 149 out of 150 are you kidding me. This book has been such an inspiration to me to change my ways and how I think and or treat people. They are so wrong this book will do more good I don't see any harm in this book at all. Stupid people!! Heck the kids in classes who don't even read the book are still saying that type of language.

  • i want to get the book too!

    btw,here are some interesting

    books about teachers.

    front of the class by brad cohen

    dangerous minds by louanne johnson

    these two books changed

    my life, forever!

  • where can we get that book? :) im interested too

  • I had read this book,Thank you for Erin Gruwell's contributions.

  • I can't even watch this.

  • 15 years ago when I was a student in Holland, I read books on the schools booklist that were worse in foul language than this book. And hey, this is written for and by students of there own age. With a great message against violence and with hope.

  • I WANNA READ THE BOOK SO BADDD!!!

  • I was amazed at how one teacher can help rechannel so much of the students' good and bad life experiences into such honest writing. Any teacher who can feel how incredible Erin Gruwell and her Freedom Writers are should be allowed to teach their students the truth. And their truths were not censored because life is not censored.

  • I read the book and I'm sure that the language that we hear at school isn't better than the language of the book... so why a teacher can't gave to her student a book which can inspire then to became better for its language? The language of the book is the language than a lots of us use!!!!!!

  • Love the contradiction, the teacher can't use the book as a textbook, but the students can borrow the book from the school library.

  • that is soooo tru

  • If the parents said it was okay for their children to read the book, then there shouldn't be a problem. Sure there's certain language used in it but over time, you see how the students evolve to becoming headstrong scholars who are in control of their own future. Also, as for the language, that's how the students express the situation. In my opinion, they're saying that if Anne Frank wrote like that, then the students wouldn't be allowed to read her book either.

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