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Waiting for Superman SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? /GS1 17 0 R /Properties << /MC0 62 0 R >> /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 ] WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. 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. 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. Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb >> There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. When you put a face on this issue, as we talk about the details of it, that's the thing I keep saying to myself, let's not forget as we argue and discuss and learn about this, let's not forget the kids. What are your thoughts? We love good teachers. 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. RHEE: Yes, that's right. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. We're going to lose our nation. Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the WebWaiting For "Superman" has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /Properties << What happened there? They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Waiting for Superman. 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. [31] Ravitch served as a board member with the NAEP and says that "the NAEP doesn't measure performance in terms of grade-level achievement," as claimed in the film, but only as "advanced," "proficient," and "basic." So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Let me answer your question first. 5 0 obj Randi said something that was fascinating. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. This is why. WebWaiting For Superman (871) 7.4 1 h 51 min 2010 X-Ray PG The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery for access to New York City's best charter Geoffrey Canada has done it. /T1_1 20 0 R Because there is no downside to failure. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. Thats just one of the great things that we see. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. "[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. Web2010. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. 1h 51m. >> SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. /Filter /FlateDecode 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. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. We need to have great curriculum. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. No one wants lousy teachers. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. That is the problem. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. They said, look, this work is hard. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? So the question is, what's New York City doing right? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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 may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. IE 11 is not supported. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. By Stephen Holden. That's amazing. /Type /Page A preview of movies hitting theaters this spring : NPR The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. 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 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'm just wondering. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. How do you get past that? But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? 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. You fought the law and the law won. I'm feeling it. I went up to a school up there. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. endobj Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, We increased attendance rates. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. /Pages 1 0 R I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. 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. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. BRZEZINSKI: All right. 4,789 Views. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. endobj BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. & 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. And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. Yes, first or second grade skills. 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. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. 9 0 obj There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. 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. 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. The answer is no. << 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. Connecticut and Hartford education policy resources, Creating a Dual-Language Magnet School for Hartford Region, Sources on Trinity student protests since 2007, Jack Dougherty and Trinity College Educ 300 students, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, An Uncommon Critique: How A Charter Networks Success Safeguards Student Experiences, The Evolution of Gender Inequality At Trinity College: A Study Through Different Publications, Higher Education for Dreamers After the Failed DREAM Act. /T1_1 20 0 R 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). It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. It's happening in D.C. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. documentary "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. >> waiting for superman movie transcript UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? /MC0 31 0 R I've never seen anything like it in my life. /Contents 30 0 R All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. These people are the ones making the decisions. 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. /T1_1 57 0 R 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. /Length 866 ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. An examination of the current state of education in America today. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 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. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. /Properties << The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. 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. [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. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. Thanks to all of our guests. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. 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. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. 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. << WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. 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. I think we all need to take more responsibility. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. Waiting for 'Superman /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There are core values we have to have. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. You know that process has to be fixed. /Parent 1 0 R It is a revolution. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. Sept. 23, 2010. /Resources << BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. 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. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. /T1_0 24 0 R The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis We'll hear from the audience as well. PG. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. KENNY: Right. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. You all have your numbers, right? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. /Parent 1 0 R /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? We have to take ownership. >> 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. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. >> [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. We're just saying --. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ]