Yeah. Ok, look. That was a movie.
(And book, yes I know.) But..movie. A Hollywood movie.

Did you notice the part of what happened to her personal life while she was consumed with teaching the kids? Her fiancé left her because she was literally never around.

That should not be what we’re striving for.

Also that movie grossly over simplified things.

My students are not clicking with me? Here, let me put some magic dividing tape down on my classroom floor and ask a bunch of personal and emotionally compelling questions. See! Boom, magic! Now I am the best teacher in the world!

I hate Freedom Writers for these two main issues: - teacher martyrdom - oversimplification of all that is teaching

Real life is not a Hollywood movie.