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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. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace.
Gruwell began student teaching in 1994 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California.She was assigned low-performing students in the school. One student, a boy named Sharaud, had recently transferred to Wilson from a rival high school where he had allegedly threatened his teacher with a gun. [3]
Lawrence Fobes King, also known as Latisha King [1] [a] (January 13, 1993 – February 14, 2008), was a 15-year-old student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, who was shot twice by a fellow student, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, and kept on life support for two days afterwards.
Irimie, 53, was among the four people killed – including two students and another teacher – during a mass shooting Wednesday that has left the community of Apalachee High School and Winder ...
A girl who wrote to God in her diaries, a boy with learning disabilities who was just learning to like who he was and a teen who would spend every free minute fishing were among the 13 victims of ...
Man shot his estranged wife at the school where she worked and a student standing behind her and then killed himself [68] 14: 2019 Saugus High School shooting: Santa Clarita: 2019-11-14: 3: Student age 16 shot five schoolmates, killed two, then killed himself [60] 15: Union City, California elementary school double murder: Union City ...
The father of one of the victims of the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, school shared a heartbreaking poem his son wrote just weeks before his death.. Max Schachter read a free verse poem ...
Using G.I. Bill benefits, he entered the University of Southern California, where he earned three degrees (BA 1950, MA 1954, PhD 1963) before eventually joining the faculty. [1] He was known for always getting on the elevator and putting his back to the door and introduce himself saying "This might be the only chance I'll ever get to meet you ...