http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463998/

Freedom Writers is about students in a highschool where the teachers and eveyone just does there job for the hell of it and not because they want the teens to learn. The have already lost hope for them and aren't trying to help them.The a new teacher comes in (Hilary Swank) who believes in the teens and struggles to teach them and show them they can be someone, at first it was hard fro her but then the teens started liking her and made it easy for her to get through to them. They learned alot through her, she mnade them think about there lifes and made them realize that the can survive and be sucessfull and thatthey are smart and no one can tell them they are not. It is a very good movie you should watch it.