I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? Waiting for Superman | Documentary Heaven Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. 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. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. That means in the midterms. 6 0 obj 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 actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. SCARBOROUGH: Right. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> By the nature of who my family is. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? She was a teacher in Indianapolis. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. Wouldn't that have been better? And that is a concept that is so necessary. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up >> UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. It's happening in Los Angeles. 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. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. /Resources << RHEE: Heres the thing. You don't come off well in this movie. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. We increased student achievement levels. I support public schools. And that means get involved. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. She was assigned in January. What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? I cry for him sometimes. /Filter /FlateDecode I know they are. 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. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? It's happening in D.C. Because there is no downside to failure. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." We'll come back and continue this. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. "[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. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. 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. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. "Geraldo at Large." How do we spread that from Harlem across America? Because what is wrong with what he's saying? >> You said, you still cry every time you see it. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. /Properties << BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." 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. 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. Why did you pick this topic? My kids have won the lottery. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. /ExtGState << /Font << /T1_1 24 0 R Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. 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. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. >> SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. 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. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth stream You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. << I want to talk about New York for one second. I went up to a school up there. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. Nakia joins us here tonight. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. The principal wants her to stay. John, tell us how you got involved in this. All of my kids have gone to public school. >> CNN.com - Transcripts What are your thoughts? Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. /Font << But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. /MC0 34 0 R We're just saying --. schools. SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. /Type /Page CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. These are your schools, your communities. But I think it's quite frankly a little disingenuous for the union president to stand up and say we liked what Michelle was doing, we wanted it to continue to happen, when the national AFT poured $1 million into the campaign in Washington, D.C. a million dollars in a local mayoral race you know clearly sends a message that they didn't want things to continue as they were. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, >> 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. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. 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. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. That's the first thing. 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? We're going to lose our nation. /Length 866 WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. 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. /ExtGState << This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. Fox News. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. [2] 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. 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. 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. [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. 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. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. We love hard-working teachers. 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. Documentary on Americas Public School System - The New waiting for superman movie transcript The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I actually have teachers in my family who really think is this is a terrific movie because it exposes for them how complicated it is, how important it is to get great teachers in the classroom and what a difference they can make. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. /TT0 48 0 R There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Documentary: Waiting for Superman 2 0 obj In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. Guggenheim, Davis. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the The documentary follows 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. >> Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] "[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. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. Most of them. 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. These people are the ones making the decisions. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. Sept. 23, 2010. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /Parent 1 0 R The superintendent wants her to say. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. These students range in /ExtGState << 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. 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. It matters who your local representative is. SCARBOROUGH: All right. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. NAKIA: I was disturbed. 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. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." The answer is no. >> WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. 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. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. /Type /Page What did you learn? Film. CANADA: There are two things. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. You have to live in the district. "[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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. /Rotate 0 Waiting for 'Superman 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. 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. 4,789 Views. Or it can't be done. /Font << 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. Waiting for "Superman" streaming: where to watch online? 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. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. You know that process has to be fixed. The movie's major villains are the National I love teachers. /MC0 37 0 R 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I think we all need to take more responsibility. endstream /Filter /FlateDecode As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. We're not attacking teachers. /Font << 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 You all have your numbers, right? 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. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. "[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. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. >> WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. According to Waiting for Superman, from 1971 to today, America has gone from spending an average of $4,300 per student to $9,000 per student, (adjusting for inflation). That means politically get involved. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? 3 0 obj WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? >> [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.) Web2010. 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. << /Rotate 0 That's amazing. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. Randi said something that was fascinating. If you look at what the Kipp schools have done or the uncommon schools, they've been able to replicate this model over and over. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. Documentary. 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. In fact you come off quite badly. /T1_0 24 0 R What have you been able to do with them? "[20], The film also received negative criticism. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. But you did. >> Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. >> There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. Geoffrey Canada. 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. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. 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. I'm just wondering. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. It was not simply about education. 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. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. /GS0 47 0 R Thank you for joining us. 1h 51m. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis [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. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. Take a look. By showing its audience that even charter schools close their doors to some students, which them forces these students to attendfailing public schools, the video illustrates howthere are still flaws to the American public school system and challenges that need to be addressed.
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