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The hosts said the film Dangerous Minds was based on Lou Anne Johnson's autobiography, My Posse Don't Do Homework, noting her background as a retired Marine who became a teacher.
So this is based on the autobiography, My Posse Don't Do Homework by Lou Anne Johnson, who's a retired US Marine.
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The hosts said the film Dangerous Minds was based on Lou Anne Johnson's autobiography, My Posse Don't Do Homework, noting her background as a retired Marine who became a teacher.
So this is based on the autobiography, My Posse Don't Do Homework by Lou Anne Johnson, who's a retired US Marine.
She wasn't involved with it, but was really upset about the grandmother character who called the Pfeiffer character a honky bitch. Johnson said she actually had a really good relationship with that woman who had the twins and that they worked together and kept the twins on the right track and they both graduated. She said, "I wrote the book, I have to be white."