![]() ![]() I like to believe that I'm the only person who can control my life - of course there's the butterfly effect and then there is the case where someone else's actions can affect what happens to you, but they are usually single events, and most times, one can always decide one's reactions to such events. The movie was everything about changing your destiny, and all through my life, I've never tolerated the 'fate' and 'destiny' philosophies that anyone dished out to me. Who doesn't love a rebel? And I mean a good rebel - someone who succeeds in something when everyone else expected him/her to fail. I didn't have too many expectations from it, but by the end of the movie, I loved it. At that point, I wasn't too keen on reading the book, but when I saw the movie pop up in my Netflix recommendations list, I decided to check it out. ![]() I first heard of this book in Sheila's blog when she reviewed this during the Banned Books week last year. Someone else said, "She'll only last a day." ![]() "These kids are going to make this lady quit the first week," my friends were saying. Barbara Thompson, the school board president, wrote in an email yesterday: "She knew she had defied her supervisors' direction in her work and that her defiance was 'insubordination' and 'neglect of duty'.I'm sure one of these days she's going to go to principal and ask for her leave, but then again, what else is new? The school board denies book banning and accuses Heermann of insubordination. The union is deciding whether to take the case to court. "That was the pivotal moment of my life, when I saw how my students were taken with the book, how they loved it, and then I am told not to let them read it? I said no," she said.Īfter being threatened with dismissal, Heermann was eventually suspended. But later that day she received an email from the board advising her not to teach the book. Heermann and the union say there was no explicit ban on the book when she handed it out to pupils on November 15. ![]() It remains available in school libraries. The school board member allegedly persuaded the other six officials to ban Heermann from teaching the book. Teachers' union officials say that a single board member objected to swearing in the book. Her head agreed and Heermann got written permission from nearly 150 parents, but the Perry Meridian high school board urged her to wait for its decision. "I thought my students would very much relate to those kids." "If you read the whole book you will see how these inner-city students grow and change and become articulate, compassionate, educated young people who want to do something good in their lives despite the environment in which they were raised," she told the Guardian. It was made into a film with Hilary Swank last year.Ĭonnie Heermann, a teacher for 27 years, sought permission to introduce the book to her students last autumn after attending a training workshop held by the Freedom Writers Foundation. The Writers Diary, a series of true stories written by inner-city teenagers, was put together by a teacher, Erin Gruwell, and has been celebrated as a model for transforming young lives. ![]()
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