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. It's shameful. 6 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. I was really tired. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. >> BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? >> Explain to me how that is good for children. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. 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. You cannot say -- you can't say, well, the problem with charter schools is they only serve some of the kids when in fact you are advocating for caps on those effective charter schools. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. Is there any give here? They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /GS0 18 0 R >> I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. NAKIA: I was disturbed. Why? << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /Length 868 /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. 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? SCARBOROUGH: What we hear, Randi, morning after morning after morning from progressives, from conservatives, from Republicans, from Democrats, from independents, seems to be the same thing. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] These are your schools, your communities. Thanks to all of our guests. 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 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. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. WEINGARTEN: Yes. CANADA: Well you know what? It was not simply about education. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. >> So the question is, what's New York City doing right? Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. This is our country. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. No one wants lousy teachers. 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. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. 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. WebSummaries. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. >> Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. /Font << 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. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? BRZEZINSKI: No. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I have a good feeling about this. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We love hard-working teachers. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. I get why that's good for the adults. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. I want to talk about New York for one second. Cross your fingers. /Resources << >> BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. 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. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". 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. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. /Properties << 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: And fight for these kids. 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. But you did. >> We have to take ownership. The video explores several of the problems within the system, and tells the personal stories of several families and communities who have been impacted and disadvantaged by the broken education system. We'll be right back. /Im0 19 0 R That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. /Contents 36 0 R "Geraldo at Large." It just came out this week. waiting for superman documentary transcript Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. Waiting for "Superman" - Wikipedia SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Waiting for Superman on iTunes 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. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. endobj All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. Waiting for Superman WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." 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. We increased attendance rates. << That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. /Type /Page SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? Why not? 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. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /T1_1 57 0 R 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. Randi said something that was fascinating. /Type /Pages [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. Waiting for Superman That is the problem. And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. What happened there? /ExtGState << But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. >> Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the 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. It's not about charter schools. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. /Contents 30 0 R /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 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. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're in a crisis. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? Are you feeling agreement? It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. /Resources << This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. It's happening in Los Angeles. 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 . SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. Let me answer your question first. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Thank you so much. /Properties << ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. A teacher wants to stay. I think the question about whether school reform can continue at as an aggressive rate under him is whether hes going to be able to stand up to the fact that SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this Michelle. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. Feb 22, 2013. >> She was assigned in January. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. I've been amazed by what's possible. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. 4,789 Views. 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. 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 isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. The union leaderships could take this on as a platform and say this is something we're going to commit to and give our membership behind this so we can show progress in taking on these issues. 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. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. I want the system to be better. You have to live in the district. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. WebFILM SUMMARY With passion and urgency, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN advocates for the educational welfare of Americas children in a public school system that is severely The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. This is why. 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. The movie's major villains are the National 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. /Length 866 Waiting for "Superman /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. Yes, first or second grade skills. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. Video Analysis: Waiting for Superman - Trinity College Waiting for Superman.2010. CANADA: Sure. Waiting For Superman /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. IE 11 is not supported. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. /Font << 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. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. You talked about evaluations like every other business. The film also examines teacher's unions. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 7 0 obj Fox News. Documentary. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. 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. 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. An examination of the current state of education in America today. /Count 5 /Resources << SCARBOROUGH: All right. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Waiting for Superman/Transcript - The Altered Adventure BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. 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.
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