There's a complete and utter lack of accountability for the job that we're supposed to be doing, which is producing results for kids. /Parent 1 0 R /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> That youre not going to look American with our 15,000 school system and say we're going to charter them, that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. This is why. The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. And that is a concept that is so necessary. All of my kids have gone to public school. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. 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. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. 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. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. This is our country. "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. Geoffrey Canada. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. 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. 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. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. >> I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. /Rotate 0 But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. /ExtGState << /GS1 17 0 R KENNY: Right. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. 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. >> GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. [32][33][34][35][36], A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011. /Rotate 0 If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. /Type /Page >> Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. 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. << /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. They'll talk about this issue. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. 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. 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). "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". You cannot say -- you can't say, well, the problem with charter schools is they only serve some of the kids when in fact you are advocating for caps on those effective charter schools. Or it can't be done. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? You have to live in the district. 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. /Font << Didn't get an answer on that. << BRZEZINSKI: Okay. endobj I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. It's about those kids. WEINGARTEN: John. 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. >> "[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: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. >> I cry for him sometimes. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. Thank you so much. That means politically get involved. One of them is Nakia. 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. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. We should let Randi respond. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. RHEE: Yes, that's right. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. 3 0 obj I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. By Stephen Holden. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. 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'm feeling it. 9 0 obj END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. /T1_1 57 0 R And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. BRZEZINSKI: Please help us welcome founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Washington D.C.'s school's chancellor, Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teacher's president Randi Weingarten and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. >> >> 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. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. We're going to lose our nation. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. And that means get involved. /Parent 1 0 R It's happening in Los Angeles. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? I support public schools. Wouldn't that have been better? /GS1 17 0 R Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. "[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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. 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. I want to talk about New York for one second. Film. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. [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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. /Properties << I want to say something about what John just said. "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. 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. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. /Contents 33 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. 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. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. /Rotate 0 /MC0 37 0 R I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. 6 0 obj Michelle and I love great teachers. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. But I think that's false. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. >> Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. endstream SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? Last Friday night I watched Davis Guggenheims new documentary, Teach, which was broadcast in on CBS.Guggenheim, you may recall, is the filmmaker who brought us Waiting For Superman, the shameless propaganda-fest that signaled the full-on nuclear stage of the corporate-driven war on public education (also known as the /Type /Page Waiting for Superman.2010. CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. NAKIA: I was disturbed. /T1_0 20 0 R How do you explain that to a child? >> BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? >> RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. It was not simply about education. We're in a crisis. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. 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. There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. What did you learn? SCARBOROUGH: If you're going to lock kids in Harlem out of that process and let a few see the light and see the -- that seems to me to be immoral. /ExtGState << It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. 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. We increased student achievement levels. 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. [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. 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. 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. She was assigned in January. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. When you put a face on this issue, as we talk about the details of it, that's the thing I keep saying to myself, let's not forget as we argue and discuss and learn about this, let's not forget the kids. We spruced up -- modernized the building. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. Nakia joins us here tonight. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. 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. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. I love teachers. /T1_0 52 0 R By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu /Count 5 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. We'll be right back. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. Is there any give here? It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. Ht6R*bs7n& It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. /GS0 18 0 R Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. "[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. /Resources << Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. Because there is no downside to failure. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. 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. endobj We're turning to you now. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Now it's happening in Houston. Let me answer your question first. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. It's not about charter schools. [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. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." >> All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. 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. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. 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. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. LESTE BELL, DAISYS TEACHER: She chose her college and she wrote a letter to the admissions and asking them to allow her to attend their college. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. We're not attacking teachers. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. We all have to move off self-interest. >> stream We have to take ownership. << Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. schools. I know they are. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] SCARBOROUGH: They can't. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? Why is that? Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? /Parent 1 0 R We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. The union itself has instead of focusing on good teachers and how we need to help them, give them the tools and conditions, we have always focused on, you know, the due process protections. 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. Guggenheim, Davis. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. Ravitch said that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C.