Killing Mr Griffin Character Analysis

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There are times where kid’s in school get angry with their grades. Sometimes, they blame it on themselves, the teacher, or the class itself. In Killing Mr.Griffin by Lois Duncan, a group of teenagers are not happy with the way Mr.Griffin is towards the class. Mr. Griffin is a strict teacher who has no exceptions but, truly does care about his own students Lois Duncan descriptions of the kid’s anger isn’t exactly realistic Student’s do get mad and do say words they don’t really mean but, most of the time they would never go out and intentionally harm the teacher.
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