waiting for superman documentary transcript

>> DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. 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. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. << We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. BRZEZINSKI: All right. The attendance and the schools itself. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. Superman Movie BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? 8 0 obj 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. We're not attacking teachers. 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. I think the question about whether school reform can continue at as an aggressive rate under him is whether hes going to be able to stand up to the fact that SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this Michelle. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] endobj That is the problem. 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. We all have to move off self-interest. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. 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. /Count 5 /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. >> >> Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. /Filter /FlateDecode Geoffrey Canada. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? endstream 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Why were you frightened to send her to school. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. /Pages 1 0 R Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. 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 But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? /Properties << That means in the midterms. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. /Font << The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. 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. /GS1 17 0 R /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] That's not the case with all charter schools across America. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. What have you been able to do with them? Why 'Waiting For Superman' Didn't Get An Oscar Nod : NPR SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? SCARBOROUGH: Right. /Font << Thanks to all of our guests. I'm feeling it. /MC0 62 0 R SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. The answer is no. Are you feeling agreement? Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." [31] Ravitch served as a board member with the NAEP and says that "the NAEP doesn't measure performance in terms of grade-level achievement," as claimed in the film, but only as "advanced," "proficient," and "basic." Because there is no downside to failure. [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.". Michelle and I love great teachers. [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.) 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. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. [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. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. I've been amazed by what's possible. You all have your numbers, right? 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. The movie's major villains are the National First, I loved that town hall today. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. /Resources << And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Why is that such a frightening concept? SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. /Resources << BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. 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. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. 4 0 obj CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. 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. >> The site's consensus states: "Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for "Superman" is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. Waiting for Superman 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. /T1_0 24 0 R What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." The documentary follows "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. 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. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. 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. /GS0 18 0 R GUGGENHEIM: The dream of making a movie like this is conversations just like this, the fact that you and NBC and Viacom and Paramount and Get School bring a movie to the table and let people in this room have a real conversation about to fix our schools is essential. One of them is Nakia. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to CANADA: Can I just tell you this? 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. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. Web2010. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. Yes, first or second grade skills. It matters who your local representative is. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT How do we spread that from Harlem across America? How do you explain that to a child? I think he wants to do the right thing. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. SCARBOROUGH: All right. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. WEINGARTEN: Yes. Explain to me how that is good for children. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. 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). /MC0 34 0 R You do not come off as the hero of this movie. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." I was really tired. >> SCARBOROUGH: Right. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. [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. However, the film shows how even charter schools leave some children behind, as those who are not chosen by the luck of the draw in the lottery system, are not able to attend the charter schools of their choice. These people are the ones making the decisions. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. PG. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. /T1_0 52 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Okay. %PDF-1.3 That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. stream Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. KENNY: Right. Waiting for Superman on iTunes What are your thoughts? "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. schools. CANADA: There are two things. I have a good feeling about this. 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. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. We need to have great curriculum. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. 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. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). You don't come off well in this movie. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. They'll talk about this issue. It's shameful. 1. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] RHEE: Thats correct. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. >> These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. /Rotate 0 DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. /Rotate 0 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. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. 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. /GS1 17 0 R If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. /Type /Page DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. << WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? WebSummaries. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? endobj /Parent 1 0 R During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. We actually have to change the political environment. /T1_0 24 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. I've never seen anything like it in my life. /Type /Pages NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. 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. << But you did. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. Thank you so much. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. 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. And that means get involved. All of my kids have gone to public school. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 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 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. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." You know that process has to be fixed. You said, you still cry every time you see it. Documentary. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. /Resources << BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We have to go to break right now. "[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. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. 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. 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. /XObject << ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> [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. It's happening in Los Angeles. It's a random selection. Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb 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. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. stream /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 ] I want to say something about what John just said. Waiting for 'Superman Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? What happened there? Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. RHEE: I don't think they are. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. Guggenheim, Davis. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? That means politically get involved. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. 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. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" We'll be right back. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av John, tell us how you got involved in this. 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. endobj But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? Because we talked to Randi before. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. 1 0 obj /T1_1 24 0 R /CropBox [ 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 love hard-working teachers. waiting for superman documentary transcript 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. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. 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. It reveals that the two major problems Many of them. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. Waiting for Superman and Failing Public Schools - The New You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. >> 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. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. /Properties << /Contents 33 0 R "[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. She was assigned in January. 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. waiting for superman movie transcript I love teachers. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. 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. But I do think though Davis even though we may disagree there wasn't a public school or a public school teacher that was pictured in this film, people have done amazing jobs. Why not? No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. Now it's happening in Houston. "[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. [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. 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. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. /MC0 28 0 R WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? It's must-see TV. These are our communities. endobj "[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. "[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. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [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. /T1_0 24 0 R If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. waiting for superman BRZEZINSKI: No. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. Waiting for Superman | Documentary Heaven It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. Waiting for Superman.2010. (soundbite of film, "big george foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world") KHRIS DAVIS: (As George Foreman) Last time they saw me, I looked like Superman.

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