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. I know they are. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. This documentary follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, and undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. >> What have you been able to do with them? schools. 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. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. 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. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. "[9] Scott Bowles of USA Today lauded the film for its focus on the students: "it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. They'll talk about this issue. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. Nakia joins us here tonight. 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. 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. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. And I was hurt. Thank you for joining us. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. WEINGARTEN: Yes. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. endobj 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. /T1_1 20 0 R This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. endstream I've never seen anything like it in my life. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. I want to say something about what John just said. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] endobj We're feeling a real sense of commitment. Are you feeling agreement? Why were you frightened to send her to school. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. It's about those kids. Film. It's about places that have failed for 30, 40, 50 years, we can't do the same thing this year that we did last year. [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.". 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. It reveals that the two major problems We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. >> Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. 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. RHEE: I don't think they are. 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. 2 0 obj Wouldn't that have been better? /MC0 28 0 R Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. Take a look. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. /Parent 1 0 R BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. 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. /Contents 30 0 R 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. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? >> The superintendent wants her to say. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. >> That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. SCARBOROUGH: All right. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 << He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." What did you learn? /Rotate 0 /Type /Page WEINGARTEN: John. First, I loved that town hall today. Go. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. 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. These students range in UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. That is the problem. 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. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. /Type /Catalog /Rotate 0 >> You don't come off well in this movie. You talked about evaluations like every other business. /Parent 1 0 R I'm joking. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. So look, all of us on this stage, whether it's Geoffrey or Michelle or Davis, myself, the two of you, we all care passionately about the children. This is why. [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." Why is that such a frightening concept? SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? 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. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. 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. We're just saying --. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. 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. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. >> /ExtGState << Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. /GS1 17 0 R In fact you come off quite badly. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? We increased graduation rates. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. endobj Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. Waiting for Superman.2010. Why is that? The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. << I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. 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. I've been amazed by what's possible. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. /Contents [ 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R ] SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. These are our communities. /Properties << 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. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. /Type /Page BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the /MC0 62 0 R But I think that's false. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. 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 >> 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's happening in Los Angeles. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. The filmmakers made sure to film how Nakia becomes increasingly more anxious and concerned as time passes during the lottery, but fewer spots become available and her daughters name has not been called (Guggenheim 1:32:49). The documentary follows [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> 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. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. Most of them. It's happening in D.C. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. One of them is Nakia. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? %PDF-1.3 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I get why that's good for the adults. 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. "[13] Variety characterized the film's production quality as "deserving every superlative" and felt that "the film is never less than buoyant, thanks largely to the dedicated and effective teachers on whom Guggenheim focuses. How do you get past that? Feb 22, 2013. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. /Parent 1 0 R This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. [31] (The film says, however, that it is focusing on the one in five superior charter schools, or close to 17%, that do outperform public schools.) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. LEGEND: Yes. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. /Resources << /Length 868 /GS1 17 0 R /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I have a good feeling about this. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. /Resources << I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. RHEE: Heres the thing. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. 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. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. What's going on here? Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. How do you explain that to a child? Geoffrey Canada. >> Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. 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 BRZEZINSKI: No. Why not? /Type /Page /MC0 37 0 R GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] What are your thoughts? And that is a concept that is so necessary. I'm feeling it. That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. >> 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? We should let Randi respond. /TT0 48 0 R 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. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. Thats just one of the great things that we see. But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? /GS0 18 0 R Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. 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. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. 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 get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. << RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. >> UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Come on out. SCARBOROUGH: Right. We're going to lose our nation. I think he wants to do the right thing. I was really tired. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. You know that process has to be fixed. 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. /GS0 18 0 R It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. /T1_1 20 0 R We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. Cross your fingers. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. /Contents 33 0 R We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WebGenre: Documentary Waiting for 'Superman' Screenplay Edit Buy Year: 2010 4,775 Views Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me << There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. /ExtGState << Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. 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. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN You do not come off as the hero of this movie. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The film portrays the deep sadness that Bianca and her mother feel when Bianca is not accepted into the charter school as the two embrace one another at the end and Nakia dries her daughters tears (Guggenheim 1:37:35). /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Why did you pick this topic? << KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. We love good teachers. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. It was not simply about education. << Guggenheim, Davis. I know, but you didn't have enough money. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. They said, look, this work is hard. [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. /Font << /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. /Length 866 And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. /GS0 18 0 R /T1_1 57 0 R /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Count 5 SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. >> WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. "[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. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. 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. Is there any give here? /MC0 34 0 R Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. You fought the law and the law won. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? We even tolerate mediocre teachers. >> }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} endobj 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. /T1_0 24 0 R 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? "[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. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. 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. /Contents 36 0 R BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? The film also examines teacher's unions.
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