BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. We're not attacking teachers. >> It's not about charter schools. 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 endobj /ExtGState << WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. 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. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. documentary What's going on here? 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. 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. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. /MC0 31 0 R SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? You have to live in the district. We increased attendance rates. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. /Type /Pages Fox News. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 /T1_1 20 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Right. Randi said something that was fascinating. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. 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. endobj SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online SCARBOROUGH: Right. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. Waiting for 'Superman /Parent 1 0 R In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. I'm just wondering. 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. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? 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. Why were you frightened to send her to school. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. >> 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. I know they are. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. 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. << Are you feeling agreement? NAKIA: Shes 7 now. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." You don't have all sorts of external rules. The documentary follows Web2010. 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. "Geraldo at Large." Geoffrey Canada. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. << 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. [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. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. /Properties << Many of them. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CNN.com - Transcripts I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? NAKIA: I was disturbed. 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. waiting for superman documentary transcript HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. You believe it. 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. RHEE: I don't think they are. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. That is the problem. Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. /Count 5 You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. 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. Thats just one of the great things that we see. These people are the ones making the decisions. 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. >> WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. 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. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. 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. You talked about evaluations like every other business. /Properties << Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. By the nature of who my family is. What are your thoughts? We have to go to break right now. Most of them. 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. 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. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. >> SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. 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. 5 0 obj As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). I'm feeling it. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. /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 ] First, I loved that town hall today. What have you been able to do with them? SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? /Parent 1 0 R CANADA: Sure. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. 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'll come back and continue this. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Sept. 23, 2010. I think we all need to take more responsibility. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. I've been amazed by what's possible. It just came out this week. Take a look. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. We have to go to break. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. CANADA: There are two things. /Rotate 0 SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. >> DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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. (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. 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. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. 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. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. /MC0 34 0 R Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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).