TWYH 177-227

This section was when I really saw that the students in room 203 had really turned around. When Erin left a lot of the trip stuff up to the students, not so much the planning but like the rules and regulations they acted very grown up. They were the giddy little kids that they were when Erin first started doing all of this HUGE activities with them. They were still really excited but they acted more like college students that were excited to go and knew that they had to plan a lot of things on their own. They knew that they had to prepare for the trip to really appreciate the trip that they were going on. The only thing is that I’m starting to think about what Stacey said in class, John is Erin’s money tree. There is a part in the book on page 192 where Erin and John have conversation that goes like this after she found out that they couldn’t get any sponsors for the trip, “ ‘Why didn’t you come to me earlier?’ John asked,
‘I wanted to prove to you that we could pull this one off without your help’
‘Can you?’
‘No.’
‘How many Freedom Writers are planning on going?’
‘About fifty…’
‘How much are you short?’
‘About two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.’
Without hesitation, John Tu took out his checkbook and wrote a check for $250,000.”
Okay… that’s a quarter of a million dollars. Yes I know the man has money but she didn’t have to tell him that much did she??