It matters who your local representative is. Superman Movie I know, but you didn't have enough money. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. Film. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? But I think that's false. The film portrays the deep sadness that Bianca and her mother feel when Bianca is not accepted into the charter school as the two embrace one another at the end and Nakia dries her daughters tears (Guggenheim 1:37:35). WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. LEGEND: We need to be clear, you know, sometimes it sounds like everybody is on the same team up here because we all sound like we agree. When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. How do you explain that to a child? 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. /Rotate 0 She was a teacher in Indianapolis. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. 4 0 obj In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. We're not attacking teachers. This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. SCARBOROUGH: All right. You fought the law and the law won. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. Be the first to contribute. I think if we actually got to what constitutes a good teacher and had that kind of standard we'd all be in the same place on that and there are about 50 or 60 districts right now, I made a proposal in January about how to overhaul evaluation. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 10 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. The attendance and the schools itself. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. Thats just one of the great things that we see. endobj The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. RHEE: It was actually 12 percent that were proficient in reading but he picked the better statistic because actually, only 8 percent of our children were proficient in math. People couldn't believe you could do it. 4,789 Views. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] documentary We increased graduation rates. >> SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. We'll be right back. Let's give five extra hours for all the teachers in America to help kids right now and have the unions lead this charge of saying this is an emergency, we need to help these kids. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. >> BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 The union itself has instead of focusing on good teachers and how we need to help them, give them the tools and conditions, we have always focused on, you know, the due process protections. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. endobj I'm just wondering. I want to talk about New York for one second. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. waiting for superman movie transcript This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". /Font << You don't come off well in this movie. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. endobj This is why. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. The issue is we have to all do this together with good contracts, with all of us on the same side, getting to help good teachers, getting supportive principals, getting a curriculum and the wrap-around services that Geoff does that cradle to college service. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Waiting for 'Superman Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. "[30], Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, similarly criticizes the film's lack of accuracy. WebWaiting For Superman (871) 7.4 1 h 51 min 2010 X-Ray PG The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery for access to New York City's best charter They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. I'm joking. It affects good teachers, too. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? SCARBOROUGH: Davis? It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Waiting for 'Superman "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: All right. Waiting For Superman You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. A reminder for everyone, coming up right after this program, MSNBC will re-air that teacher town hall that was hosted by Brian Williams, that's from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time, right here on MSNBC. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the Many of them. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. /Rotate 0 I actually have teachers in my family who really think is this is a terrific movie because it exposes for them how complicated it is, how important it is to get great teachers in the classroom and what a difference they can make. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. Explain to me how that is good for children. }>=Uw2cS=V. 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What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. Feb 22, 2013. 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. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. That's the first thing. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Connecticut and Hartford education policy resources, Creating a Dual-Language Magnet School for Hartford Region, Sources on Trinity student protests since 2007, Jack Dougherty and Trinity College Educ 300 students, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, An Uncommon Critique: How A Charter Networks Success Safeguards Student Experiences, The Evolution of Gender Inequality At Trinity College: A Study Through Different Publications, Higher Education for Dreamers After the Failed DREAM Act. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. /T1_0 20 0 R You talked about evaluations like every other business. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. Now, a couple of years ago, an independent group called Ed Sector actually surveyed a whole bunch of teachers and asked teachers the question about whether they needed or wanted a union. Nakia joins us here tonight. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. You know that process has to be fixed. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. [30] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations. /Parent 1 0 R That's not the case with all charter schools across America. "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? Sept. 23, 2010. Last Friday night I watched Davis Guggenheims new documentary, Teach, which was broadcast in on CBS.Guggenheim, you may recall, is the filmmaker who brought us Waiting For Superman, the shameless propaganda-fest that signaled the full-on nuclear stage of the corporate-driven war on public education (also known as the >> Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis Most of them. It just came out this week. /Resources << Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. It's happening in D.C. Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. The filmmakers made sure to film how Nakia becomes increasingly more anxious and concerned as time passes during the lottery, but fewer spots become available and her daughters name has not been called (Guggenheim 1:32:49). Walk in and I still want every kid to win. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. It starts with teachers becoming the very best, leaders removing the barriers of change, neighbors committed to their school, you willing to act (Guggenheim 1:45:05-1:45:28). 6 0 obj But I think it's quite frankly a little disingenuous for the union president to stand up and say we liked what Michelle was doing, we wanted it to continue to happen, when the national AFT poured $1 million into the campaign in Washington, D.C. a million dollars in a local mayoral race you know clearly sends a message that they didn't want things to continue as they were. Come on out. Because we talked to Randi before. >> LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. CANADA: There are two things. We have to go to break.