Ms. Gruwell succeeded in winning her students and she showed them that she actually cares. She comes up with different activities, that will help the students learn. She also takes up 2 other jobs, part time, to pay for field trips for the students. She goes out of her way to help these students and to show them that  really does care and that she doesn’t plan on giving up on them. By her actions, I can say that she really does care and that she wants the best for her students.  She acts like a mother to them and they have the respect that they should with a mother.  I think she is a nice person and that what she is doing is worth all the obstacles that she may have to face. All the criticisms that she recieves is because that the teachers are jealous that Ms. Gruwell is accomplishing so much with students that no other teacher was able to do.