>> Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. 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. Web2010. 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). 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. 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. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. You know that process has to be fixed. RHEE: Heres the thing. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. 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. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. 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. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. /GS1 17 0 R I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. I get why that's good for the adults. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. 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 said, look, this work is hard. Waiting for Superman. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. In fact you come off quite badly. /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 ] They'll talk about this issue. endobj WebSynopsis. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. endstream Its so interesting you say that because Mika, Chris, our EP, myself, everybody thats seen this movie says first of all, they break down and cry at the end of this movie and then when they go home and they look at their children, children who can go to really great schools, they look at their own children differently. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? The contract says she has to go. >> /MC0 28 0 R This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. endobj WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. It's a random selection. >> Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. Most of them. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. I cry for him sometimes. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. /Rotate 0 Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." 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. I support public schools. I'd like to follow up by asking you, that on "MEET THE PRESS" this morning, you said the union has taken steps to make teachers better, taken concrete steps. >> >> GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. /T1_0 24 0 R Davis, god bless you. BRZEZINSKI: All right. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? 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. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. >> SCARBOROUGH: We really had. KENNY: Right. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. She was assigned in January. One of the most disheartening moments of the movie for me is when you were driving away from the meeting, your meeting, with the teachers, and it just showed your face. /T1_1 20 0 R 1h 51m. 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 [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.) And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. 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: They were underperforming it. 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 went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. It's shameful. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." << People -- but this room needs to get bigger. I think we all need to take more responsibility. /Pages 1 0 R BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. When I see from my own experience as a school teach are for six years when evaluations didn't work and less than 20 percent of them think that evaluations work right now. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ExtGState << /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? 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. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. 10 0 obj "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? [31] The most substantial distortion in the film, according to Ravitch, is the film's claim that "70 percent of eighth-grade students cannot read at grade level," a misrepresentation of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. These are our communities. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. 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. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. That means politically get involved. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. Why were you frightened to send her to school. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? 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. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. /MC0 31 0 R Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. [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. /Im0 19 0 R Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. 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. It reveals that the two major problems Davis, I want to go to you on this one. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. You said, you still cry every time you see it. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. 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.