Before anyone even comments - have you actually READ the book? Her school didn't like her... the kids did. The school tried to shut her down every year. They gave her the "bad kids" from the get-go never expecting her to do something great and never wanting her to. Her own fellow teacher tried to tear her down.
This was actually a surprisingly good movie. I thought it would suck--I only watched it because I was bored and it was the only movie on past 10pm where I was at. I was pleasantly surprised.
And out of the class who is supposedly "half white"... how many of those white kids lived in the bad part of Long Beach and expereienced the same things that all the blacks, latinos, and asians faced? This movie is as much about race as its not about race. It's about using your story to inspire hope in others - a hope which was otherwise missing before this woman made these kids believe in themselves and each other.
Before anyone even comments - have you actually READ the book? Her school didn't like her... the kids did. The school tried to shut her down every year. They gave her the "bad kids" from the get-go never expecting her to do something great and never wanting her to. Her own fellow teacher tried to tear her down.
Sad but true.
I like it. It's like a good Lifetime movie! Watch Homeless to Harvard: the Liz Murray Story!
This was actually a surprisingly good movie. I thought it would suck--I only watched it because I was bored and it was the only movie on past 10pm where I was at. I was pleasantly surprised.
And out of the class who is supposedly "half white"... how many of those white kids lived in the bad part of Long Beach and expereienced the same things that all the blacks, latinos, and asians faced? This movie is as much about race as its not about race. It's about using your story to inspire hope in others - a hope which was otherwise missing before this woman made these kids believe in themselves and each other.
can any one post the part wher eva/sp?/ said"everyone says that they should enjoy being a child but they don't know the pain the we've been through"?
No audio...
but there is audio?
@@AleXianFPV I find out that the audio is really really low/quiet, I had to up everything just to be able to barely hear it.
So what is your problem?
i bet she got punked by her students!
get over it