By Stephen Holden. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to We're going to lose our nation. What happened there? /Resources << In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. 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. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. /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 ] One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. 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. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. Thats just one of the great things that we see. So people keep talking about accountability just in terms of firing teachers but what I think people need to understand is how accountability allows you to unleash teacher passion by setting on fire all the teachers in the school because you're allowed to give them the freedom to teach the way they see fit. 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. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. But you did. [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. endobj /GS0 18 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? I have a good feeling about this. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. 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. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. 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. 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. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. /Properties << Web2010. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. You talked about evaluations like every other business. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? I'm feeling it. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. /Type /Page Davis, I want to go to you on this one. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. endobj You went into the lottery system for your daughter. By the nature of who my family is. It's not about charter schools. /Type /Page 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. 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 ] CANADA: There are two things. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. 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. 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. And that means get involved. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 4 0 obj UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. I'm just wondering. /GS1 17 0 R We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. >> WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. 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. /T1_1 24 0 R That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. /T1_1 20 0 R Waiting for Superman and Failing Public Schools - The New 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. These students range in I want to talk about New York for one second. 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. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. Thank you so much. 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. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. /ExtGState << BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. endobj Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Ht6R*bs7n& This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. /T1_0 52 0 R Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. /T1_1 20 0 R 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. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. 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. RHEE: I don't think they are. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? Waiting for 'Superman I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. The film also examines teacher's unions. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. /ExtGState << And I was hurt. 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. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis Didn't get an answer on that. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. Are you feeling agreement? The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. /T1_1 20 0 R Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. /T1_0 24 0 R GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? 6 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. /Resources << I want the system to be better. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? These are our communities. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth The contract says she has to go. 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. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. /Contents 33 0 R Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. >> You fought the law and the law won. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Why is that such a frightening concept? 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. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. /XObject << UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Why? >> endobj I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. 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 Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. SCARBOROUGH: All right. Feb 22, 2013. A teacher wants to stay. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. Waiting for Superman WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT /Contents 30 0 R And we need to have good evaluation systems. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. They said, look, this work is hard. 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. endobj >> 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. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. We're not attacking teachers. 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 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. /Font << WEINGARTEN: Look, what the unions actually talked about was as part of lifting the cap, as part of lifting the cap, they didn't fight against lifting the cap -- LEGEND: Yes, they did. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. >> People -- but this room needs to get bigger. >> /Rotate 0 I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. /Rotate 0 And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? 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. Yes, there should be fairness. RHEE: Thats correct. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. Waiting for 'Superman [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. >> We're just saying --. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? /Resources << And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Waiting for Superman Documentary Analysis - Trinity These are your schools, your communities. /MC0 34 0 R We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. 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). BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? /Properties << I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. 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. 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. 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 . /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: Heres the thing. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. I love teachers. Waiting for 'Superman SCARBOROUGH: I tell you what, that was the part of the movie where Daisy, you saw her crossing her fingers and write physically got nauseated. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 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? << Geoffrey Canada has done it. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. One of them is Nakia. They'll talk about this issue. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. 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. Why were you frightened to send her to school. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. BRZEZINSKI: Please help us welcome founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Washington D.C.'s school's chancellor, Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teacher's president Randi Weingarten and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. SCARBOROUGH: All right. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? 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. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. NAKIA: I was disturbed. /Font << BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. That is the problem. Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. << SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. 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. That means in the midterms. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. 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. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? 1h 51m. Documentary on Americas Public School System - The New NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Rotate 0 I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. We're in a crisis. CANADA: Well you know what? BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. << And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. /Properties << 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. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. /Filter /FlateDecode The attendance and the schools itself. We love good teachers. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. 1 0 obj Nakia joins us here tonight. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. "[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. My kids have won the lottery. 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. It's a random selection. /GS1 17 0 R RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. /Properties << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Take a look. /Type /Page We have to go to break right now. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. /T1_0 20 0 R I cry for him sometimes. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /Resources << There's a cap in New York State because ultimately when George Pataki and I and others started to work on having charter schools in this state, there was an issue in terms of the economics and what would happen with moneys in terms of other districts. 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. In fact you come off quite badly. I went up to a school up there. waiting for superman movie transcript IE 11 is not supported. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? 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. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. There are winners and losers. >> ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN Its so interesting you say that because Mika, Chris, our EP, myself, everybody thats seen this movie says first of all, they break down and cry at the end of this movie and then when they go home and they look at their children, children who can go to really great schools, they look at their own children differently. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Because we do understand if we're going to fix this problem, we're going to have to figure out how to get you guys together and make this work. Yes, first or second grade skills. "[9] Scott Bowles of USA Today lauded the film for its focus on the students: "it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children. /Parent 1 0 R American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. 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. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. We'll be right back. 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.