waiting for superman documentary transcript

It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. There are winners and losers. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. SCARBOROUGH: Right. /ExtGState << /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. One of them is Nakia. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. There's a cap in New York State because ultimately when George Pataki and I and others started to work on having charter schools in this state, there was an issue in terms of the economics and what would happen with moneys in terms of other districts. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. /ExtGState << A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? CNN.com - Transcripts endobj "[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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We'll be right back. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. >> /Type /Pages /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. 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). JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? << 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. stream Waiting for Superman /Resources << "Geraldo at Large." Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. >> RHEE: First, I think I would be remiss if I did not point out to everybody that there's been a lot of talk about public schools, public schools. I support public schools. /Type /Page We love hard-working teachers. The documentary follows BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? But I think that's false. 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. << "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". (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. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. 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. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. Waiting for Superman You said, you still cry every time you see it. Because we talked to Randi before. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. >> BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. 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. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. /Resources << /Resources << Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? Why is that? WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. endobj /GS0 18 0 R 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. 1h 51m. 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. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. Most of them. And that means get involved. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. It reveals that the two major problems Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. schools. That is the problem. /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 ] }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} NAKIA: Yes. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /GS0 47 0 R 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). /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Final words with our panel, next after a short break. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. 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. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." /Parent 1 0 R In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. << >> By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. SCARBOROUGH: Right. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. I want the system to be better. /Filter /FlateDecode And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. >> I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. We have to go to break right now. /T1_0 24 0 R There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. >> RHEE: I do. The contract says she has to go. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 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. 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. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. I have a good feeling about this. I don't care what I have to do, I don't care how many jobs I have to obtain but she will go to college. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? /T1_1 57 0 R John, tell us how you got involved in this. 4,789 Views. Thanks to all of our guests. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. SCARBOROUGH: All right. [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. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. 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. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. 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. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. /Resources << What did you learn? WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Let me answer your question first. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. Davis, god bless you. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. << We even tolerate mediocre teachers. I know they are. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. LEGEND: Yes. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? I cry for him sometimes. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. >> Let's give five extra hours for all the teachers in America to help kids right now and have the unions lead this charge of saying this is an emergency, we need to help these kids. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. 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. 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. It's about those kids. First, I loved that town hall today. WebSummaries. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. Be the first to contribute. We can't have our school system running like this. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Thats just one of the great things that we see. And it started to haunt me, the idea that kids in my own neighborhood, and I live in a pretty good neighborhood, aren't getting what my kids have. 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. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. %PDF-1.3 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. 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. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. NAKIA: I was disturbed. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. Randi said something that was fascinating. 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 Many of them. 3 0 obj 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. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. Web2010. documentary BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. There are core values we have to have. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". We're turning to you now. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. But, Mondello Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. Waiting for Superman. >> 4 0 obj It matters who your local representative is. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. /GS1 17 0 R In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. /MC0 34 0 R BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? >> LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. National Assessment of Educational Progress, Bill Gates Goes to Sundance, Offers an Education, "How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for "Superman"' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine - Nymag", "Waiting for Superman Movie Reviews, Pictures", "How did 'Waiting for 'Superman's' ' Davis Guggenheim become the right wing's favorite liberal filmmaker? IE 11 is not supported. /Resources << It just came out this week. DEBORAH KENNY, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY: Well its what we're doing and a lot of the schools around the country are doing when they're given the freedom, which is what the charter gives you to accomplish these results. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? /Parent 1 0 R WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. 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. >> We're going to lose our nation. Fox News. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. endobj Waiting for Superman and Failing Public Schools - The New She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. 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. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. Waiting for Superman BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? Why? 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: Michelle and I may disagree on the particulars of this, but there are about 50 or 60 districts that are using the proposal that we made and ultimately we think if we do that, if we fix teacher evaluations so it's about teacher development and evaluation, we can fix this problem. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? >> I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. It was not simply about education. 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. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. /Properties << What are your thoughts? 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. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av 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. waiting for superman movie transcript They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. BRZEZINSKI: All right. /Type /Page Take a look. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. /MC0 37 0 R You don't come off well in this movie. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? [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.) Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems.

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