And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. I said I don't want to go up. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. /ExtGState << Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. /MC0 62 0 R The contract says she has to go. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. WebSummaries. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. endobj SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. 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. And that is a concept that is so necessary. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] So the question is, what's New York City doing right? LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. /Type /Page << 2 0 obj PG. 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. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[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. >> 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. What did you learn? I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. 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. >> I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. << You do not come off as the hero of this movie. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> What's amazing about these tears, I knew about the film for months and just knowing the system, I knew how it was going to end. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. /MC0 31 0 R I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. 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. BRZEZINSKI: All right. An examination of the current state of education in America today. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. >> LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. One of them is Nakia. We'll come back and continue this. 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. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. /GS1 17 0 R Most of them. SCARBOROUGH: Right. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Geoffrey Canada. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. 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. But, Mondello NAKIA: I was disturbed. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the /Properties << I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. We'll be right back. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. You talked about evaluations like every other business. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. 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 don't have all sorts of external rules. [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. You know that process has to be fixed. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. Or it can't be done. Go. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. /GS0 18 0 R /Font << BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. Documentary. I have a good feeling about this. Ht6R*bs7n& And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. "Geraldo at Large." Thats just one of the great things that we see. 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. It is a revolution. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. >> They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. 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We have to go to break. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. SCARBOROUGH: Right. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. 1. We'll hear from the audience as well. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. >> 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. 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. RHEE: I do. You all have your numbers, right? 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. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. I went up to a school up there. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. I think the point of departure between Michelle and I may be that I see, just like in Finland and Singapore and other places, that we need to all actually work together, focused on instruction, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they can and then -- BRZEZINSKI: Wasnt that what she was doing? >> DAISYS GATHER: Yes. I've never seen anything like it in my life. 9 0 obj GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. 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 BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? /Length 868 Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Geoffrey Canada has done it. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. I get why that's good for the adults. /Properties << These students range in [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. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. >> Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. endobj Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. Why were you frightened to send her to school. RHEE: I don't think they are. Waiting for Superman. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? 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. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? 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. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. /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 ] SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. Randi said something that was fascinating. 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. 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). Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. That means politically get involved. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. IE 11 is not supported. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) You don't come off well in this movie. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. Fox News. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth /Rotate 0 It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. 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. The movie's major villains are the National You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. 7 0 obj And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. But I think that's false. 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. /Parent 1 0 R 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.