What are the Freedom Writers doing today?
Many of the other Freedom Writers have graduated from colleges and graduate schools and are still in touch with Ms. Gruwell and the other Freedom Writers. Some are currently part of the staff at the Freedom Writers Foundation, and some currently teach in the Long Beach Unified School District. One student, whose sole mission as a freshman was to “make Ms. Gruwell cry,” is now a teacher at one of Long Beach’s toughest high schools. Where did the Freedom Writers go on their “Ambassadors of Tolerance Tour?” They started their AOT Tour in England, where they visited London and Oxford, and then they were off to Poland. They spent some time in Warsaw, and later they visited the Chelmno Extermination and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. On their next stop, the Netherlands, they got a chance to see Anne Frank’s attic, and visit the Rijks and Van Gogh Museums. They also went to the World Court in The Hague, and sat in on a “crimes of war” trial. Their next stop was Sarajevo, Bosnia, where they ca
