Innledning
Everyone thought it was stupid when Erin Gruwell decided that she wanted du teach the unteachable class.

You could say she was naïve for thinking that she could see through culture and skin.

The problem in the school in general was that it was filled with people trying to protect their own skin, their own kind.

Utdrag
A note got passed around the classroom, it was a drawing of a black man with big lips, it was supposed to mock Jamal (one of her students).

Making insecurities in a group could lead to more conflicts because if you attack one in the group you will get problems with the rest of group.

She stood up for her class and said, “this is the propaganda they used in the holocaust”.

She was shocked when she found out that none of the students knew what that was.

She asked how many people who had been shot at and almost everyone raised their hand.

She didn’t know what the students had been through, until she gave them their own journal.