Waiting for Superman and Failing Public Schools - The New This is why. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. People couldn't believe you could do it. >> SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. Now it's happening in Houston. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. 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: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. /MC0 28 0 R And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. << 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. We increased student achievement levels. << I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. /GS1 17 0 R [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. /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 ] << There are really, really bad charter schools across America. Waiting for "Superman BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. There are winners and losers. You believe it. Documentary on Americas Public School System - The New National Assessment of Educational Progress, Bill Gates Goes to Sundance, Offers an Education, "How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for "Superman"' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine - Nymag", "Waiting for Superman Movie Reviews, Pictures", "How did 'Waiting for 'Superman's' ' Davis Guggenheim become the right wing's favorite liberal filmmaker? endobj WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. endobj 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). /XObject << /ExtGState << By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? 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: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. 4 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. >> WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. There are core values we have to have. /GS0 18 0 R Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Why is that? [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. 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. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. /Resources << << " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 SCARBOROUGH: What we hear, Randi, morning after morning after morning from progressives, from conservatives, from Republicans, from Democrats, from independents, seems to be the same thing. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. 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. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. 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. It just came out this week. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. Go. [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.". And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. /Filter /FlateDecode The answer is no. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. 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. Waiting for Superman on iTunes And I was hurt. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Okay. And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You have to live in the district. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? /GS1 17 0 R TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL 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. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. >> 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. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. Yes, there should be fairness. 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. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. [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." /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. First, I loved that town hall today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. /Length 866 SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? 7 0 obj DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. << The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. IE 11 is not supported. 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. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. We need to have great curriculum. 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. 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. You know that process has to be fixed. endobj I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Waiting for 'Superman SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? And it's just -- it changes your perspective. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. These people are the ones making the decisions. SCARBOROUGH: Right. The contract says she has to go. Waiting for Superman NAKIA: Yes. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. Or it can't be done. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. What did you learn? 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It is a revolution. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It was about a whole range of other issues. /Properties << SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. /T1_1 57 0 R 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). >> RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. 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. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. I've been amazed by what's possible. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. Waiting for Superman. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. 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? We all have to move off self-interest. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. CANADA: Sure. 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. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? >> I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. By the nature of who my family is. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. I want the system to be better. 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 >> Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. /Parent 1 0 R In fact you come off quite badly. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. I want to say something about what John just said. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, Waiting for Superman/Transcript - The Altered Adventure Ht6R*bs7n& Waiting for 'Superman' the title refers to a Harlem educators childhood belief that a superhero would fix the problems of the ghetto won an Audience Award at We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? We have to go to break. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Type /Page /Rotate 0 END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? << endobj Is there any give here?