waiting for superman documentary transcript waiting for superman documentary transcript

It's must-see TV. Thank you for joining us. I love teachers. BRZEZINSKI: No. /GS1 17 0 R >> They'll talk about this issue. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Waiting for Superman. /Rotate 0 /Type /Pages But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? SCARBOROUGH: All right. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. Most of them. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. 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. /Properties << SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." I know they are. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. One of them is Nakia. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". And I was hurt. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. /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 ] Cross your fingers. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. The contract says she has to go. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. 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 Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth /Pages 1 0 R MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 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. /T1_0 52 0 R SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. << SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. 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. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 Documentary. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. I'm feeling it. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. There are core values we have to have. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. CANADA: Sure. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. 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. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? >> Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. Randi said something that was fascinating. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. >> BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. /Resources << What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. 7 0 obj 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN 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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. "[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. RHEE: I don't think they are. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. SCARBOROUGH: Right. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. /T1_1 24 0 R Geoffrey Canada has done it. But I think that's false. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. << BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. >> 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 We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. >> NAKIA: I was disturbed. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. These students range in We have to go to break. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. /Properties << SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. /Rotate 0 And it's just -- it changes your perspective. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. 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. You all have your numbers, right? It's not about charter schools. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. /ExtGState << "Geraldo at Large." << I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. 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. 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. [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. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. We actually have to change the political environment. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. >> 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. I've never seen anything like it in my life. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? It was about a whole range of other issues. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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. WebSynopsis. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. The film also examines teacher's unions. IE 11 is not supported. The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. We need to have great curriculum. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're seeing all this great success in Harlem, there were forces that were trying to make sure that that couldn't be replicated on a larger scale. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. And that is a concept that is so necessary. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. [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.". Davis, god bless you. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. SCARBOROUGH: All right. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] A teacher wants to stay. /Contents 30 0 R /Contents 33 0 R 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. 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. We can't have our school system running like this. /Parent 1 0 R Come on out. The movie's major villains are the National BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. You don't come off well in this movie. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. /ExtGState << Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. It's happening in Los Angeles.