waiting for superman documentary transcript
RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. Go. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. 10 0 obj And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. The superintendent wants her to say. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. /Filter /FlateDecode A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. /MC0 62 0 R [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. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. Most of them. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. << Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. 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 SCARBOROUGH: Right. And we need to have good evaluation systems. 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. How do you explain that to a child? This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. 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. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the [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. I support public schools. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. "[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. /Properties << 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 can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. CANADA: Sure. It's must-see TV. "[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. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. We spruced up -- modernized the building. 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. 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). We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. 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. /Parent 1 0 R I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. 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 Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. "Geraldo at Large." I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. [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." A teacher wants to stay. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. 4 0 obj >> >> 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. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. There are core values we have to have. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /Contents 30 0 R And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. 6 0 obj "[10] Joe Morgenstern, writing for The Wall Street Journal, gave the film a positive review writing, "when the future of public education is being debated with unprecedented intensity," the film "makes an invaluable addition to the debate. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I cry for him sometimes. What happened there? Explain to me how that is good for children. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. >> By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? I'm just wondering. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. 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. RHEE: Thats correct. >> The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. 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 SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. 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. 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. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? Nakia joins us here tonight. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. LEGEND: Yes. endobj stream They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? >> Do you think it has characterized you fairly? SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? >> /Resources << I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. Sept. 23, 2010. >> BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. I'm joking. 2 0 obj /GS1 17 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. (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. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. 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). /MC0 31 0 R The principal wants her to stay. >> I mean, not all teachers are created equal. 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. /Type /Page GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. That's the first thing. /T1_1 20 0 R ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> 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. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. It's about those kids. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. /GS0 18 0 R And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. /Filter /FlateDecode There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. 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. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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. Web2010. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." 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. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. 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. 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. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. You fought the law and the law won. /Font << So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? 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. 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. NAKIA: I was disturbed. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. /TT0 48 0 R RHEE: Yes, that's right. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. These students range in /Count 5 /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. Didn't get an answer on that. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. >> If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. /Properties << She was assigned in January. 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.
