We have to take ownership. 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. You talked about evaluations like every other business. /Filter /FlateDecode 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). }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} /Rotate 0 Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. DEBORAH KENNY, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY: Well its what we're doing and a lot of the schools around the country are doing when they're given the freedom, which is what the charter gives you to accomplish these results. 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 second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. "[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. Thats just one of the great things that we see. 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. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. It was about a whole range of other issues. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? /ExtGState << >> 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. /GS0 18 0 R NAKIA: I was disturbed. 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. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? /Rotate 0 Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. RHEE: Yes, that's right. 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. Now it's happening in Houston. In fact you come off quite badly. /Contents 33 0 R >> ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. endobj It's happening in Los Angeles. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. Web2010. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. My kids have won the lottery. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. 10 0 obj I get why that's good for the adults. It's happening in D.C. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. 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. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. 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. I'm feeling it. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? KENNY: Right. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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). The attendance and the schools itself. [2] 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. WEINGARTEN: Michelle and I may disagree on the particulars of this, but there are about 50 or 60 districts that are using the proposal that we made and ultimately we think if we do that, if we fix teacher evaluations so it's about teacher development and evaluation, we can fix this problem. 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. << But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. It is a revolution. >> endobj /Parent 1 0 R 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. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /Font << 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. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. 6 0 obj So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. It matters who your local representative is. "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. I cry for him sometimes. << END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. 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. Since charter schools do not operate with the same restrictions as public institutions, they are depicted as having a more experimental approach to educating students. /T1_1 24 0 R Final words with our panel, next after a short break. [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. /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 ] BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. Or it can't be done. >> Is there any give here? The movie's major villains are the National And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. >> 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. 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. >> UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. That's amazing. 1 0 obj /GS1 17 0 R I want the system to be better. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. << (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. But I do think though Davis even though we may disagree there wasn't a public school or a public school teacher that was pictured in this film, people have done amazing jobs. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. & 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. Waiting for Superman.2010. 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. 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. People couldn't believe you could do it. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? Why? (d acJ4@%Q8C/! That means in the midterms. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R 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. I went up to a school up there. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. She was assigned in January. /Filter /FlateDecode S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 We increased graduation rates. But you did. An examination of the current state of education in America today. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. >> I'm joking. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. [30] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations. /XObject << >> ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN /ExtGState << /Properties << Yes, first or second grade skills. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. How do you explain that to a child? SCARBOROUGH: Right. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, [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. I know they are. We can't have our school system running like this. 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. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. >> The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. The answer is no. SCARBOROUGH: All right. /MC0 62 0 R And that is a concept that is so necessary. Guggenheim, Davis. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. /Type /Page BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. 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: I tell you what, that was the part of the movie where Daisy, you saw her crossing her fingers and write physically got nauseated. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ExtGState << The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. >> [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. What have you been able to do with them? Yes, there should be fairness. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. It's a random selection. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. 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. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. 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. << SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. 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. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. /Properties << I'm just wondering. >> GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. 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. 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. 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. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. /GS1 17 0 R /GS1 17 0 R In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Michelle and I love great teachers. 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] 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. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? /T1_0 52 0 R We have to go to break right now. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. BRZEZINSKI: All right. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the 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. /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. Didn't get an answer on that. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. Because there is no downside to failure. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. I think the point of departure between Michelle and I may be that I see, just like in Finland and Singapore and other places, that we need to all actually work together, focused on instruction, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they can and then -- BRZEZINSKI: Wasnt that what she was doing? One of them is Nakia. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's must-see TV. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. %PDF-1.3 It affects good teachers, too. >> RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. >> SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. 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. What happened there? GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. 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. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. [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.". We actually have to change the political environment. >> << DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. 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. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. PG. endstream Why not? /Resources << BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? endobj 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. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. We're turning to you now. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. 4 0 obj We need to have great curriculum. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. LEGEND: Yes. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. All of my kids have gone to public school. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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.
