That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." Waiting for Superman SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? Why is that? 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. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? 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 KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. waiting for superman movie transcript "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. We're going to lose our nation. "[10] Joe Morgenstern, writing for The Wall Street Journal, gave the film a positive review writing, "when the future of public education is being debated with unprecedented intensity," the film "makes an invaluable addition to the debate. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. 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. /Type /Catalog /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 ] Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. What did you learn? Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. We're seeing all this great success in Harlem, there were forces that were trying to make sure that that couldn't be replicated on a larger scale. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? Waiting for Superman | Documentary Heaven Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. It's about those kids. /TT0 48 0 R Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. Davis, god bless you. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? /GS0 18 0 R I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I've been amazed by what's possible. By the nature of who my family is. We'll come back and continue this. By Stephen Holden. A teacher wants to stay. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. That means politically get involved. 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. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. 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 Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? >> GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. << 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. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. 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 It's shameful. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're just saying --. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. 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). It matters who your local representative is. stream We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. 4,789 Views. Randi said something that was fascinating. It's must-see TV. >> Charter schools are public schools, public dollars, public school children and to talk about them as if they are not public schools, I think does a disservice to that movement. Most of them. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. >> And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. 3 0 obj We love hard-working teachers. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. Yes, there should be fairness. I want to talk about New York for one second. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. I think he wants to do the right thing. What happened there? So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. Why did you pick this topic? SCARBOROUGH: You also told me that there was a split in the civil rights community, that older members of the civil rights community sometimes fought younger members of the civil rights community who were reformers. << There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. I love teachers. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? /T1_1 20 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. /Parent 1 0 R In fact you come off quite badly. /Properties << As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. documentary << LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. 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. /Rotate 0 These people are the ones making the decisions. "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? What's going on here? MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. >> One of them is Nakia. John, tell us how you got involved in this. 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). So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. 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. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Superman Movie GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. /Type /Pages BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN How do we spread that from Harlem across America? Take a look. We love good teachers. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? SCARBOROUGH: Right. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I'm just wondering. 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. She was assigned in January. Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. >> Come on out. It's happening in D.C. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. >> << They'll talk about this issue. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. 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. Thanks to all of our guests. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. /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 ] Waiting for Superman We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. BRZEZINSKI: You also knew that a little girl like Daisy can be a vet or a doctor or anything she wants to be if she's given the tools to do it. Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? I was really tired. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. >> We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. /T1_1 57 0 R UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Why were you frightened to send her to school. We need to have great curriculum. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Waiting for "Superman" - Wikipedia UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. SCARBOROUGH: Right. 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. We'll hear from the audience as well. Why? 10 0 obj And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. And that means get involved. (soundbite of film, "big george foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world") KHRIS DAVIS: (As George Foreman) Last time they saw me, I looked like Superman. 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. 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. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. %PDF-1.3 And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. "[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. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. >> Guggenheim, Davis. What have you been able to do with them? I said I don't want to go up. Thats just one of the great things that we see. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. Why is that such a frightening concept? >> It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Geoffrey Canada. /GS1 17 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 1. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. The superintendent wants her to say. /Filter /FlateDecode "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You believe it, don't you, Michelle? /GS0 18 0 R "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. We should let Randi respond. RHEE: I do. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. 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. /ExtGState << RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. >> The answer is no. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. Thank you for joining us. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. Cross your fingers. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. endobj Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CNN.com - Transcripts If you look at what the Kipp schools have done or the uncommon schools, they've been able to replicate this model over and over. Because you would think that the parents of those children that Michelle was in there shaking up the system to save those children, if those parents would have rallied, but we have gotten so used to failure, we tolerate failure in places like D.C. and central Harlem and Detroit, we just tolerate that failure and we've got to say to this nation, no more. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? Yes, first or second grade skills. I want to say something about what John just said. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, /Resources << I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? We can't have our school system running like this. >> Geoffrey Canada has done it. >> Because we talked to Randi before. 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? Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. endobj 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. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. 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. [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.". /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. We're in a crisis. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." We all have to move off self-interest. 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 . Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. Many of them. 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. Documentary on Americas Public School System - The New 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. Waiting for Superman on iTunes /MC0 62 0 R endobj Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst-performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves.
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