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Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. /Type /Page But, Mondello Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Davis, I want to go to you on this one. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. The only disagreement that I think our union has had in terms of the way in which things have gone, is that our folks have desperately wanted to have a voice in how to do reform. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. /Resources << First, I loved that town hall today. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? 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. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [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. GUGGENHEIM: The dream of making a movie like this is conversations just like this, the fact that you and NBC and Viacom and Paramount and Get School bring a movie to the table and let people in this room have a real conversation about to fix our schools is essential. I want to talk about New York for one second. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? The attendance and the schools itself. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's about places that have failed for 30, 40, 50 years, we can't do the same thing this year that we did last year. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. /Resources << Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. And we need to have good evaluation systems. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. 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. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? 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. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. >> As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. Fox News. However, the film shows how even charter schools leave some children behind, as those who are not chosen by the luck of the draw in the lottery system, are not able to attend the charter schools of their choice. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. /GS1 17 0 R Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. The film also examines teacher's unions. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the Cross your fingers. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. Randi said something that was fascinating. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. Why is that such a frightening concept? I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, Guggenheim, Davis. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. These are our communities. 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. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. endobj And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? >> We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? One of them is Nakia. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. You don't come off well in this movie. /T1_1 20 0 R They said, look, this work is hard. Let me answer your question first. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. You don't have all sorts of external rules. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. /Font << Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? << If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. KENNY: Right. Because there is no downside to failure. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. 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. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. SCARBOROUGH: All right. 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. PG. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, /Rotate 0 /Length 868 endstream 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. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /MC0 34 0 R Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. /Resources << RHEE: I don't think they are. /Parent 1 0 R Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? >> I have a good feeling about this. Take a look. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. Wouldn't that have been better? These people are the ones making the decisions. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. Or it can't be done. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. 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. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. >> It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. It matters who your local representative is. What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. 4 0 obj " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 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. /Parent 1 0 R 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. 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. According to Waiting for Superman, from 1971 to today, America has gone from spending an average of $4,300 per student to $9,000 per student, (adjusting for inflation). [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. 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. /XObject << 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. Go. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? How do we spread that from Harlem across America? I know they are. People couldn't believe you could do it. /Properties << Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. Take a moment. 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. That is the problem. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. 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. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. WebGenre: Documentary Waiting for 'Superman' Screenplay Edit Buy Year: 2010 4,775 Views Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. It's shameful. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. RHEE: Yes, that's right. /Filter /FlateDecode Waiting for Superman. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. This is our country. /Filter /FlateDecode We have to take ownership. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. I support public schools. 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. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. Feb 22, 2013. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. WEINGARTEN: John. [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. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] John, tell us how you got involved in this. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. 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. We should let Randi respond. /T1_0 52 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. We're just saying --. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. 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. You talked about evaluations like every other business. This documentary follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, and undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable 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. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. 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. 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. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Yes, first or second grade skills. /GS1 17 0 R LEGEND: Who your state senator is. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. 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. >> endobj /T1_0 24 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. It's about those kids. schools. 10 0 obj Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. /Contents 30 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. You have to live in the district. That's the first thing. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? Web2010. "[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. >> "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. /T1_0 24 0 R They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Thats just one of the great things that we see. We're turning to you now. >> You all have your numbers, right? If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. I'm feeling it. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. 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). GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. 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. BRZEZINSKI: All right. << /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. endobj I've never seen anything like it in my life. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. What's going on here? RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. [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. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? We love good teachers. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. 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. /MC0 28 0 R These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. Why did you pick this topic? ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. By Stephen Holden. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 3 0 obj You think it was about -- let's be respectful. They'll talk about this issue. It just came out this week. 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. [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.". SCARBOROUGH: We really had. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? NAKIA: She felt it wasn't fair that other children were being picked and she was just as smart as they were and why not her. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. /GS0 18 0 R It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. 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 DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. /ExtGState << /Length 866 /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. 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. << 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. 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] >> BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. Michelle and I love great teachers. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? "[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. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. You fought the law and the law won. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience.

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