Another True-to-Life Movie...

... struck me, as any other life-moving stories did. Just when I was about to try to start working at 11:30 p.m., our TV downstairs was tuned to HBO, featuring "Freedom Writers," which tackles division and racism in an American classroom setting, and a teacher doing her job too well.

Whoah. Yun lang.

And it's too good to be true-to-life. I actually searched for the Freedom Writers Foundation and their book, the Freedom Writers Diary. It was there. It was true.

It struck me, well, because I share the same sentiments as a teacher, only Ms. Gruwell had worse. Racism and gangsters are not major problems in the country, well at least not in my small world. But division and distraction of students from personal lives that make them poor performers are issues here.

Ms. Gruwell's methods were unconventional, inefficient in resource use, but very effective in the long run. I want to be as good as her. Problem is, I'm not a literature teacher. I'm as statistics professor to music students. Nonetheless, she inspires me.

I remember the movie "Music of the Heart" with Meryl Streep - another depiction of a good teacher. And all I wanted to be was a good epidemiologist, and/or violinist.

Or maybe, just maybe, a teacher eventually.

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