Freedom Writers Page #6

- By getting two more jobs?

I don't understand, Erin.

Scott, this is our time

to go after what we want,

When we're young,

before we have a family.

Maybe this is the perfect time

for you to go back to school,

Get your architect's degree.

Wouldn't that be great?

What?

Nothing.

So, I'll call you with a list of venues.

I've scheduled a PTA board meeting

for next week.

So, it should be no problem.

- Thank you so much.

- You're welcome.

I can't get involved

in inner school policy.

My principal only listens

to my department head,

And she's not very supportive.

You'll have to find a way to deal with it.

No, I'd rather just deal directly

with someone in power.

Ms. Gruwell, there's a system in place

Based on years of running

an educational facility.

- You have to follow that system.

- No. I won't.

Look, I'm just trying to do my job here.

What's the point

of a voluntary integration program

If the kids making it to high school

have a 5th grade reading level?

I enforced that program.

With all due respect,

All that program is doing

is warehousing these kids

Until they're old enough to disappear.

Look, I appreciate your intentions,

But there's nothing I can do

on a class-by-class basis.

Dr. Cohn, why should they waste

their time showing up

When they know

we're wasting our time teaching them?

We tell them, "Go to school.

Get an education. "

And then we say, "Well, they can't learn,

so let's not waste resources. "

I'm thinking trips.

Most of them have never

been outside of Long Beach.

They haven't been given the opportunity

To expand their thinking

about what's out there for them.

And they're hungry for it. I know it.

And it's purely a reward system.

They won't get anything

they haven't earned

By doing their work

and upping their grades.

But if Ms. Campbell

won't give you books

Because of budget restrictions,

She's not gonna approve school trips.

I'll raise the money.

I just need to know

I won't meet resistance.

See, I can't promise them anything

I can't deliver.

It only proves what they already believe.

All I'm saying is, Ms. Campbell

doesn't need to be bothered.

You're a concierge at the Marriott?

It's just weekends.

You play tennis with Evan on Saturdays.

And you can play golf

with my dad on Sundays.

You want me to play golf?

And the bonus is I get employee rates

On Marriott hotel rooms

all over the world.

I've heard a lot of hyphenates,

But a bra-selling-English-teacher-

hotel-concierge has gotta be a new one.

You told me your part-time job

was temporary.

It is. I just don't know for how long.

- What if I said no?

- No, what?

- But I can make it work, Scott.

- No, that's not the point.

You can do anything!

We know that already.

It's just that I... You...

You didn't even ask me.

- I'm just trying to do my job, Scott.

- By getting two more jobs?

I don't understand, Erin.

Scott, this is our time

to go after what we want,

When we're young,

before we have a family.

Maybe this is the perfect time

for you to go back to school,

Get your architect's degree.

Wouldn't that be great?

What?

Nothing.

So, I'll call you with a list of venues.

I've scheduled a PTA board meeting

for next week.

So, it should be no problem.

- Thank you so much.

- You're welcome.

- Lovely to see you, Paula.

- Good to see you, too.

- Hi.

- Hello.

Principal Banning received a call

from Dr. Cohn at the school board.

Apparently you're taking your students

on a trip?

Yes, but it's over the weekend,

so it won't affect any test schedules.

I know how busy you are,

And since I'm paying for it myself,

I didn't want to bother you.

I'll be right back.

Oh, no. No, no, no. Erin?

- Get back in the car.

- Dad, he lives right here.

I'll get him.

Get back in the car and lock your door.

- What's his name?

- Andre Bryant.

Andre.

Since my pop split, my mom can't even

look at me, 'cause I look like my dad.

And with my brother in jail,

she looks at me and thinks

that's where I'm going, too.

She doesn't see me.

She doesn't see me at all.

I'm going out.

- What up?

- Hey.

Where you going? I need you.

No, man, I can't now.

I got something to do.

Tonight. I'll do it tonight.

I gotta go do something,

and I can't carry that around with me.

Forget it, man, I'll get somebody else.

I can't be waiting all day on you.

Hey.

Sorry about your brother, man.

I hear he going away for life.

They won't get it.

The guy he was with confessed.

To who? Your brother?

Hey. You Andre?

- What up?

- Hey.

- What?

- Put on your seat belt.

You, too, young lady.

You kids ever been

to Newport Beach before?

What? We went there last year

on our way to Paris.

Paris.

It's good.

I brought you something.

It's a good book. I read it in school.

It's about a gang kid,

and I thought you might like to read it.

He told me what I had to say

when I'm on the stand.

At the beginning of the tour, they give

you a card with a child's picture on it.

You could find out who they were

and what camp they were sent to.

And at the end of the tour,

you could find out if they survived.

I got a little girl from Italy.

Tito, your hat.

Kristallnacht, they called it.

The Night of Broken Glass.

Hundreds of synagogues

looted and burned.

More than 7,000

Jewish stores destroyed.

Over 100 Jews killed.

A small center for children in Isieux

in the French province of Ain.

Among the children deported that day

to Birkenau

was 11-year-old Liliane Berenstein,

who, before leaving,

left behind a letter to God.

My little boy died.

He got off the train and they killed him.

I don't know why

it bothered me so much.

I've seen death all my life.

But this little boy was only five.

Ms. G had a beautiful dinner for us

at the hotel where she works.

She invited real Holocaust survivors

from the museum to meet us.

There was Elisabeth Mann.

I had my parents,

my sister, my two brothers.

Gloria Ungar.

If any of you have seen someone

with a number on their arm,

These were the lucky people.

The people who,

when we came to Auschwitz,

When they tattooed the people

they took us to do the slave work.

Not the others,

and that included many of my family.

So, we ran away,

some of the young kids.

I was at that time

Eddie llam.

And where to go, I didn't know,

But I remember one place

where I used to live.

So when I ran there,

there was not one Jew left.

I was in the worst camp.

I was in Auschwitz.

And Renee Firestone.

When I arrived, my parents were

immediately taken away from me.

My little sister,

who was then 14 years old,

Stayed with me for a little while.

And then later on,

I was separated from her also.

She lost her whole family at the camps.

She came to this country with $4

in her pocket and a newborn baby.

I'll never forget these people.

And then she was killed

because they didn't want...

I can't believe Ms. G did all of this

for us.

Hi, honey, it's me.

Look, we're still at the restaurant,

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