I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. That's the first thing. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? 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. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. 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. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. /Pages 1 0 R 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. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R "Geraldo at Large." We increased graduation rates. Be the first to contribute. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. 9 0 obj /Font << 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. 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: Yes, that's right. 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. We love good teachers. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. /Properties << 2 0 obj It affects good teachers, too. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. 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. /T1_0 24 0 R I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Because we talked to Randi before. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. >> And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 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. Yes, first or second grade skills. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] People -- but this room needs to get bigger. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. We're not attacking teachers. << 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. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. Why is that such a frightening concept? The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? 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). 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. It's must-see TV. Ht6R*bs7n& It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? /Filter /FlateDecode (d acJ4@%Q8C/! SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. 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: Right. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. 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. 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. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. Why did you pick this topic? 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. [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. 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 . Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. [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.". BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? 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. You fought the law and the law won. 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. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. endstream GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? 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? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. >> "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. BRZEZINSKI: All right. An examination of the current state of education in America today. WebSynopsis. 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. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? /T1_1 20 0 R Geoffrey Canada. There are core values we have to have. 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. /GS0 18 0 R /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? 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. 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. We'll be right back. 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. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. Let me answer your question first. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. They do allow us to figure out what's working and we should replicate it and what's not and we should close those charter schools that arent working so that we actually develop a science in our business about what works in what kinds of environments and in what kinds of communities. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Why? You believe it. 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. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. 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. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. << endobj It's not about charter schools. What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. 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. %PDF-1.3 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. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. We can't have our school system running like this. Thank you so much. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. /ExtGState << This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /GS1 17 0 R BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. >> But I think that's false. 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. /GS1 17 0 R GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. /Font << That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. >> /T1_1 20 0 R Why were you frightened to send her to school. 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. Thats just one of the great things that we see. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. It's about those kids. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We'll hear from the audience as well. WEINGARTEN: John. And I was hurt. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. You all have your numbers, right? Or it can't be done. "[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. 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. >> >> John, tell us how you got involved in this. << /Length 868 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. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. 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. /Contents 33 0 R 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 Now, a couple of years ago, an independent group called Ed Sector actually surveyed a whole bunch of teachers and asked teachers the question about whether they needed or wanted a union. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. [15] Deborah Kenny, CEO and founder of the Harlem Village Academies, made positive reference to the film in a The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about education reform. /ExtGState << Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. << Because what is wrong with what he's saying? I want to talk about New York for one second. schools. 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. We all have to move off self-interest. /Type /Page American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. It just came out this week. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? NAKIA: Shes 7 now. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. WEINGARTEN: Yes. endobj So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. >> But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. << You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. I think he wants to do the right thing. /Length 866 WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> SCARBOROUGH: All right.

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