True story of a freshman English teacher’s attempt to educate a classroom full of South Central L.A. gang members who do not see the survival value of grammar. Latinos against blacks against whites against Asians. Most the students don’t think they will live long enough to graduate. Hillary Swank plays the teacher beautifully. The story unfolds amid the racial tension that followed in the wake of the 1991 Rodney King beating. The use of Anne Frank’s diary and lessons from the Holocaust are not lost on these hard-as-nails youth. See it. This is a good one.