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　　“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved,

too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel

deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more

soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most

of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will last

forever.” –from the foreword by Anna Quindlen

Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the

Freedom Writers phenomenon came about in 1994 when Erin Gruwell

stepped into Room 203 and began her first teaching job out of

college. Long Beach, California, was still reeling from the deadly

violence that erupted during the Rodney King riots, and the kids in

Erin’s classroom reflected the anger, resentment, and hopelessness

of their community. Undaunted, Erin fostered an educational

philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, tolerance, and

communication, and in the process, she transformed her students’

lives, as well as her own. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers

went on to establish the Freedom Writers Foundation to replicate

the success of Room 203 and provide all students with hope and

opportunities to realize their academic potential. Since then, the

foundation has trained more than 150 teachers in the United States

and Canada. Teaching Hope unites the voices of these Freedom Writer

teachers, who share uplifting, devastating, and poignant stories

from their classrooms, stories that provide insight into the

struggles and triumphs of education in all of its forms.

Mirroring an academic year, these dispatches from the front lines

of education take us from the anticipation of the first day to the

disillusionment, challenges, and triumphs of the school year. These

are the voices of teachers who persevere in the face of

intolerance, rigid administration, and countless other challenges,

and continue to reach out and teach those who are deemed

unteachable. Their stories inspire everyone to make a difference in

the world around them.

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　　Erin Gruwell is the Founder and President of the Erin Gruwell

Education Project, a non-profit organization that funds

scholarships for disadvantaged students and promotes innovative

teaching methods.

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　　FOREWORD

　　ANNA QUINDLEN

　　Any columnist who makes sweeping generalizations is looking for

trouble, but I once did just that in an essay I wrote for Newsweek.

“Teaching’s the toughest job there is,” I said flatly, and the mail

poured in. Nursing is tough. Assembly line work is tough. Child

rearing is tough. There were even a few letters with some of those

old canards about the carefree teacher’s life: work hours that end

at 3 p.m., summers at the beach.

　　I imagine that the people who believe that’s how teachers work

don’t actually know anyone who does the job–if they did, they would

know that classes may end at 3 p.m., but lesson planning and test

correcting go on far into the night, while summers are often

reserved for second jobs, which pay the bills. But I’m lucky enough

to know lots of teachers, and that’s why I stuck by my statement.

More important, I’ve taught a class or two from time to time, and

the degree of concentration and engagement required–or the degree

of hell that broke loose if my concentration and engagement

flagged–made me realize that I just wasn’t up to the task. It was

too hard.

　　But if hard was all it was, no one would ever go into the

profession, much less the uncommonly intelligent people who, over

the years, taught me everything from long division to iambic

pentameter. I don’t remember much at this point in my life, but I

remember the names of most of the teachers I’ve had during my

educational career, and some of them I honor in my heart almost

every day because they made me who I am, as a reader, a thinker,

and a writer.

　　So when I first read about Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers,

it came as no surprise to me to discover that the truth about

teaching was that it was sometimes a grueling job with near-

miraculous rewards, for students and for teachers alike. In Erin’s

first, internationally known book, The Freedom Writers Diary, you

saw this mainly through the eyes of her high school students, young

men and women living with combative families, absent parents, gang

warfare, teenage pregnancies, and drug abuse. Above all, they lived

with the understanding that no one expected them to do anything–not

just anything great, but anything at all. They’d been given up on

by just about everyone before they even showed up in class.

　　Except for Ms. G, as they called her, who was too inexperienced

and na?ve to get with the surrender or the cynicism program. Her

account of assigning her students to write candidly about their own

lives and thereby engaging them in the educational process, of how

many of them went on to college and to leadership roles in their

communities, is a stand-up-and-cheer story. That’s why it was

turned into a movie, and why Erin’s model has now been replicated

in many other schools.

　　That first book contained the stripped-bare writings of those

students, but in this one, it’s the teachers’ turn to give the rest

of us a window into how difficult their job can be. In a way I

never could, they answer the naysayers who question the rigor of

their jobs. Here are the real rhythms of a good teacher’s life, not

bounded by June and September, or eight and three, but boundless

because of the boundless needs of young people today and the

dedication of those who work with them. These are teachers who

attend parole hearings and face adolescents waving weapons, who

teach students they know are high or drunk or screaming inside for

someone to notice their pain. “Sitting at the funeral of a high

school student for the third time in less than a year” is how one

teacher begins an entry. There are knives and fists, and then there

is the all-too- familiar gaggle of girls who are guilty of “a

drive-by with words,” trafficking in the gossip, innuendo, and

nastiness that have been part of high school forever. One teacher

recalls a reserved and friendless young woman with great academic

potential and a wealthy family, and the evening the maid found her

“hanging, as silent as the clothing beside her, in the closet.”

Another gets a letter from a former student with a return address

in a state prison, with this plea: “I know you’re busy but I would

be very grateful if you would write to me.”

　　Yet despite so many difficulties, these are also teachers who

weep when budget cuts mean they lose their jobs, teachers who quit

and are horrified at what they’ve done and then “unquit,” as one

describes it. Some of them have faced the same problems of racial

and ethnic prejudice or family conflict as their students, and see

their own triumphs mirrored in those of the young people they teach

and, often, mentor. One, hilariously, writes of how she is

“undateable” because of the demands of her work: “I’m going to have

a doozy of a time finding someone willing to welcome me and my 120

children into his life.”

　　Teachers had an easier time when I was in school, I suspect. Or

maybe back then the kinds of problems and crises that confront

today’s students existed but were muffled by silence and ignorance.

Certainly I was never in a classroom where a student handed over

his knife to the teacher. I never had a classmate who was homeless,

or in foster care, or obviously pregnant.

　　And yet many of the teachers here speak my language: of pen pals,

class trips, missed assignments–and, above all, of that adult at

the front of the room who gives you a sense of your own

possibilities. “Isn’t that the job of every teacher,” one of them

writes, “to make every student feel welcome, to make every student

feel she or he belongs, and to give every student a voice to be

heard!”

　　And so I stick with my blanket statement: It’s the toughest job

there is, and maybe the most satisfying, too. There are lives lost

in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a

young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the

planet. “Everyone knows I’m gonna fail,” says one boy, and then he

doesn’t. What could be more soul- satisfying? These are the most

influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of

their work will last forever. Each one here has a story to tell,

each different, but if there is one sentiment, one sentence, that

appears over and over again, it is this simple declaration: I am a

teacher. They say it with dedication and pride, and well they

should. On behalf of all students–current, former, and those to

come–let me echo that with a sentiment of my own: Thank you for

what you do.

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“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying?These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will last forever.” –from the foreword by Anna Quindlen

Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the Freedom Writers phenomenon came about in 1994 when Erin Gruwell stepped into Room 203 and beganher first teaching job out of college. Long Beach, California, was still reeling from the deadly violence that erupted during the Rodney King riots, and the kids in Erin’s classroom reflected the anger, resentment, and hopelessness of their community.Undaunted, Erin fostered an educational philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, tolerance, and communication, and in the process, she transformed her students’ lives, as well as her own. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers went on to establish the Freedom Writers Foundation to replicate the success of Room 203 and provide all students with hope and opportunities to realize their academic potential.Since then, the foundation has trained more than 150 teachers in the United States and Canada. Teaching Hope unites the voices of these Freedom Writer teachers, who share uplifting, devastating, and poignant stories from their classrooms, stories that provide insight into the struggles and triumphs of education in all of its forms.

Mirroring an academic year, these dispatches from the front lines of education take us from the anticipation of the first day to the disillusionment, challenges, and triumphs of the school year.These are the voices of teachers who persevere in the face of intolerance, rigid administration, and countless other challenges, and continue to reach out and teach those who are deemed unteachable. Their stories inspire everyone to make a difference in the world around them.