WEINGARTEN: Im just -- that's why there was a cap from the early -- SCARBOROUGH: We have a lot of people that want get involved here. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. There's a complete and utter lack of accountability for the job that we're supposed to be doing, which is producing results for kids. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. [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. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth I think he wants to do the right thing. 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. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the Fox News. Geoffrey Canada. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. Thank you so much. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. Michelle and I love great teachers. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. RHEE: First, I think I would be remiss if I did not point out to everybody that there's been a lot of talk about public schools, public schools. We increased student achievement levels. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. /Rotate 0 Ravitch also writes that many charter schools are involved in "unsavory real estate deals" [31], In 2011, many news media reported on a testing score "cheating scandal" at Rhee's schools, because the test answer sheets contained a suspiciously high number of erasures that changed wrong answers to right answers. You have to live in the district. The principal wants her to stay. We have to go to break right now. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. [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. endobj They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. It reveals that the two major problems BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. One of the most disheartening moments of the movie for me is when you were driving away from the meeting, your meeting, with the teachers, and it just showed your face. The fact that there are currently not enough spaces in American schools should also be viewed as one of the primary factors defining their failure to meet the needs of students (Guggenheim). BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. We can't have our school system running like this. Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? /Length 866 It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. "[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. 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." 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. I cry for him sometimes. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. We increased graduation rates. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. endobj I have a good feeling about this. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. We should let Randi respond. And I was hurt. >> A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time. >> CANADA: Can I just tell you this? For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. 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. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. 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. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote a negative review of the film, writing that while there's "a great deal that's appealing," there's also "as much in this movie that is downright baffling. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. endobj NAKIA: Shes 7 now. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? /ExtGState << 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. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. /Properties << That means politically get involved. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? That's not the case with all charter schools across America. Joe and I saw the movie a few days ago and we literally walked up Broadway, I think it was, in complete silence, both feeling very twisted and angry about what we had seen. /T1_0 24 0 R I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. /T1_0 24 0 R /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] That youre not going to look American with our 15,000 school system and say we're going to charter them, that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] Ht6R*bs7n& You know that process has to be fixed. The film shows how the audience members, filled with prospective students and their families, all sit with apprehensive looks on their faces as they anxiously listen to the names and numbers of the children who are called and are therefore accepted into the charter school by luck of the draw. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: All right. I've been amazed by what's possible. /GS0 18 0 R Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. We're in a crisis. So we've got to open up this issue of innovation and we've got to make sure that in those places we allow real educators to come in and redesign this thing so it works. It's happening in Los Angeles. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. We're just saying --. 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). They'll talk about this issue. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great.