waiting for superman documentary transcript

You fought the law and the law won. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. All of my kids have gone to public school. And we need to have good evaluation systems. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: I do. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. And that is a concept that is so necessary. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. I'm joking. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. /Contents 30 0 R "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. 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. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. 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. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? I've never seen anything like it in my life. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. >> DAISY: I want to be a nurse. Now it's happening in Houston. Explain to me how that is good for children. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. 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. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. Didn't get an answer on that. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? Film. "[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. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. We'll hear from the audience as well. 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. 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. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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 Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. /Contents 33 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /MC0 62 0 R I want the system to be better. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. Waiting for Superman. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. I've been amazed by what's possible. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. /Type /Pages SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. /MC0 34 0 R Nakia joins us here tonight. endstream /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. I know they are. We'll be right back. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, 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). I love teachers. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. 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. The attendance and the schools itself. I have a good feeling about this. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] /Filter /FlateDecode DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, Are you feeling agreement? WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? "[20], The film also received negative criticism. 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. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. This is why. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. 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). But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching. endobj [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. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. /Properties << LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. We increased attendance rates. /Parent 1 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Right. /GS0 18 0 R We're just saying --. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? 5 0 obj We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. >> 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. 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. 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. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. << /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: We really had. Is there any give here? We spruced up -- modernized the building. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. >> 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. /Filter /FlateDecode [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth "[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. << /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The answer is no. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. 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. /T1_0 24 0 R There are core values we have to have. 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. Take a look. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. 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. << And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. And the idea that we now can do it means that we have a very moment right now to say let's take those things, let's take those ingredients and bring them into mainstream schools. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. These people are the ones making the decisions. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? You think it was about -- let's be respectful. /Resources << Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. 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. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. They'll talk about this issue. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. << 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. 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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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: No. 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? 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 They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. You know that process has to be fixed. I support public schools. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. << /Resources << /GS1 17 0 R Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. You don't have all sorts of external rules. The contract says she has to go. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. /Font << He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. 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. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. << So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? 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. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". 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. 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. We're going to lose our nation. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. It's about those kids. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. RHEE: Heres the thing. /Length 868 3 0 obj 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 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. It is a revolution. And I was hurt. /Resources << Why is that such a frightening concept? I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. 1. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] John, tell us how you got involved in this. /Resources << He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." /Rotate 0 /Parent 1 0 R /Font << By Stephen Holden. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. 8 0 obj Because we talked to Randi before. >> BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. >> Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? /T1_1 57 0 R 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. 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 In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. That is the problem. /T1_1 24 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Yes, there should be fairness. The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. It's not about charter schools. Thats just one of the great things that we see. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. 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. You said, you still cry every time you see it. American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. I cry for him sometimes. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. 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