I have a good feeling about this. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. "[13] Variety characterized the film's production quality as "deserving every superlative" and felt that "the film is never less than buoyant, thanks largely to the dedicated and effective teachers on whom Guggenheim focuses. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. I think we all need to take more responsibility. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.". And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. /Font << /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We actually have to change the political environment. Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis /ExtGState << Waiting For Superman Discussion Guide - Influence Film Club LESTE BELL, DAISYS TEACHER: She chose her college and she wrote a letter to the admissions and asking them to allow her to attend their college. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. By showing its audience that even charter schools close their doors to some students, which them forces these students to attendfailing public schools, the video illustrates howthere are still flaws to the American public school system and challenges that need to be addressed. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. It affects good teachers, too. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. /GS1 17 0 R RHEE: Yes, that's right. /T1_0 24 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] ", "Film's anguished lesson on why schools are failing", "Protesting teachers give 'Waiting for Superman' an 'F', "Catching up with WAITING FOR SUPERMAN's Davis Guggenheim", "At the Critics' Choice Awards: Winners Are Social Network, Inception, Firth, Portman, Leo, Bale | Thompson on Hollywood", An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform, "Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal: Diane Ravitch Blasts Education Reform Star", "Waiting for Superman" star on cheating scandals, Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal, FRONTLINE: The Education of Michelle Rhee, "NYC teachers counter 'Waiting for Superman' with film of their own", "Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools", Critics Say Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools, Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, DallasFort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_%22Superman%22&oldid=1118430069, Documentary films about American politics, Documentary films about education in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 27 October 2022, at 00:08. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. And she thought I was crying because it's like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us. /GS0 47 0 R We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? These are your schools, your communities. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. endobj >> << "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" >> /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. >> DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. A preview of movies hitting theaters this spring : NPR Thanks to all of our guests. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. /Properties << SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. My kids have won the lottery. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. The bottom line is, you cannot say that you support removing ineffective teachers when then I fire ineffective teachers and you slap me with lawsuits and you slap me with the grievances. << They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Go. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. I'm just wondering. SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. /Contents 33 0 R One of the things we were thinking about, we were covering songs from the civil rights era, from the '60s and '70s and people who fought for justice and equality. /Properties << That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School. endobj What's amazing about these tears, I knew about the film for months and just knowing the system, I knew how it was going to end. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. /Rotate 0 By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. /Contents [ 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R ] I don't care what I have to do, I don't care how many jobs I have to obtain but she will go to college. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. It's shameful. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. NAKIA: I was disturbed. Web2010. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. /Type /Catalog KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. /TT0 48 0 R [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. SCARBOROUGH: If you're going to lock kids in Harlem out of that process and let a few see the light and see the -- that seems to me to be immoral. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. [32][33][34][35][36], A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. I've been amazed by what's possible. Waiting for Superman on iTunes >> Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Cross your fingers. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. Through the stories of five children who wanted to attend a charter school, the film shows how one child was accepted and another child was accepted from the wait list while three children were not accepted at all. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. waiting for superman The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. >> >> /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? >> >> I know, but you didn't have enough money. The answer is no. Ht6R*bs7n& Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. It's a random selection. So look, all of us on this stage, whether it's Geoffrey or Michelle or Davis, myself, the two of you, we all care passionately about the children. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online RHEE: Thats correct. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. /T1_1 20 0 R One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the Video Analysis: Waiting for Superman - Trinity College BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." And it started to haunt me, the idea that kids in my own neighborhood, and I live in a pretty good neighborhood, aren't getting what my kids have. Nakia joins us here tonight. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. Waiting for "Superman" - Wikipedia TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. CANADA: Sure. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. They do allow us to figure out what's working and we should replicate it and what's not and we should close those charter schools that arent working so that we actually develop a science in our business about what works in what kinds of environments and in what kinds of communities. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. Wouldn't that have been better? Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. Ravitch said that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C. Waiting for Superman/Transcript - The Altered Adventure UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. /Type /Page CANADA: Well you know what? So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. LEGEND: Yes. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. >> In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? Didn't get an answer on that. We're in a crisis. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. And we need to have good evaluation systems. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. /Count 5 [2] The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School. But as long as we try to pretend that all teachers are the same, and that there are not great teachers and not so great teachers, then we are never going to be able to solve the problems. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. /Contents 30 0 R RHEE: I'm just wondering, if the AFT was putting a million dollars into mayoral campaigns all across the country just based on who the teachers liked, I would buy that argument. /T1_0 24 0 R /MC0 62 0 R schools. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. /Type /Pages SCARBOROUGH: They can't. CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. No one wants lousy teachers. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. Take a moment. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. >> Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. I want to talk about New York for one second. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. >> You know, in Washington, D.C., under Mayor Fenty who arguably I think is the most courageous politician we have on these education reform issues, we did everything, arguably, that people wanted to see. RHEE: I do. The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. DEBORAH KENNY, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY: Well its what we're doing and a lot of the schools around the country are doing when they're given the freedom, which is what the charter gives you to accomplish these results. /Properties << Waiting for "Superman" streaming: where to watch online? GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. /Resources << WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. >> Take a look. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] What happened there? I'd like to follow up by asking you, that on "MEET THE PRESS" this morning, you said the union has taken steps to make teachers better, taken concrete steps. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? There are winners and losers. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. The principal wants her to stay. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb When I see from my own experience as a school teach are for six years when evaluations didn't work and less than 20 percent of them think that evaluations work right now. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. 4 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. Thank you for joining us. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. She was assigned in January. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of education is there's no turning back on reform in education in Washington, D.C. Our union is committed to it. >> BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? Waiting for 'Superman It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. You don't have all sorts of external rules. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. Waiting for Superman Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Geoffrey Canada has done it. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. [31] The most substantial distortion in the film, according to Ravitch, is the film's claim that "70 percent of eighth-grade students cannot read at grade level," a misrepresentation of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. 4,789 Views. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. Why is that? This scene is an important one because it highlights how the acceptance of students into charter schools is determined by the luck of the draw and how some students are not able to enter into the public school of their choice solely because luck was not on their side. >> So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. Explain to me how that is good for children. These are our communities. We have to take ownership. First, I loved that town hall today. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Why? Trying to hide the fact that I had been balling my eyes out, I said I can't -- I knew how this was going to end and I was still crying. We're turning to you now. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public WEINGARTEN: Yes. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. The site's consensus states: "Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for "Superman" is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. /Type /Page I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. /Type /Page You think it was about -- let's be respectful. I think the point of departure between Michelle and I may be that I see, just like in Finland and Singapore and other places, that we need to all actually work together, focused on instruction, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they can and then -- BRZEZINSKI: Wasnt that what she was doing? But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? endobj But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. Yes, there should be fairness. And that means get involved. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose They'll talk about this issue. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? Kids coming into middle school and fifth grade with first grade reading abilities, leaving in eighth grade with a 100 percent proficiency, outscoring kids in Scarsdale, New York.
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