Is The Freedom Writers Diary banned?

In 2008 the book was banned from 11th grade classrooms at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis while students were reading it, and their teacher Connie Heermann was suspended for 18 months without pay. In 2007 it was challenged in Howell, Michigan, but the school board eventually voted 5-2 to retain it.

Is The Freedom Writers Diary true?

It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California.

What are the only kind of heroes one 15 year old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank? Super heroes in tights. Why can’t a student go to a movie with her best friend? What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?

Where was Freedom Writers banned?

An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months. The effective book ban by the school authorities in Perry Township has outraged teachers and education reformers.

What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the students who are sent to internment camps?

What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps? They become abusive and don’t care if they hurt their families.

What sacrifices did Ms gruel have made in her personal life?

Erin Gruwell to do the sacrifices for her students, such as; she sold bras in the department store to get money to buy the books, asked for permission to visit the museum to study outside the school, got another job again as a hotel concierge to get the money to visit the museum, invited real holocaust survivors to …