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The Freedom Writers are a group of 150 at-risk students that the administration of the school told Erin Gruwell (the teacher) would never succeed. Erin Gruwell was in her first teaching job, which is scary as it is, but she was determined that these kids would succeed. She turned the curriculum to focus on what they would be interested in and started journals to release some of the difficult areas that they had to deal with in their own lives.
This all happened starting in 2004 in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell defied all the odds and is still helping teachers defy the odds today.
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