/TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's shameful. 10 0 obj I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Take a look. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? /Font << GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? "[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. 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. Why? 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. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. Or it can't be done. /T1_0 20 0 R We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. You know that process has to be fixed. Now it's happening in Houston. Since charter schools do not operate with the same restrictions as public institutions, they are depicted as having a more experimental approach to educating students. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Are you feeling agreement? 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. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) WebFILM SUMMARY With passion and urgency, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN advocates for the educational welfare of Americas children in a public school system that is severely BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. I like to follow the evidence. /T1_0 24 0 R /Resources << We love good teachers. We have to go to break. We increased graduation rates. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. By Stephen Holden. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. 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. 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. Thanks to all of our guests. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. 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. >> endstream WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. That's amazing. [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.) /Font << They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. >> There are really, really bad charter schools across America. 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 support public schools. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? Thats just one of the great things that we see. /GS1 17 0 R /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] BRZEZINSKI: No. 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. 5 0 obj Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. 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). More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. I've never seen anything like it in my life. We're turning to you now. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're just saying --. I'm feeling it. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. That means politically get involved. 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] DAISY: I want to be a nurse. You talked about evaluations like every other business. The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . 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. RHEE: Thats correct. /MC0 37 0 R 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. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. 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. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. The attendance and the schools itself. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WebSummaries. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. PG. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Why not? BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? I want the system to be better. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. They said, look, this work is hard. No one wants lousy teachers. Ravitch also writes that many charter schools are involved in "unsavory real estate deals" [31], In 2011, many news media reported on a testing score "cheating scandal" at Rhee's schools, because the test answer sheets contained a suspiciously high number of erasures that changed wrong answers to right answers. Kids coming into middle school and fifth grade with first grade reading abilities, leaving in eighth grade with a 100 percent proficiency, outscoring kids in Scarsdale, New York. 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. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. 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 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. Where does the union take some responsibility in 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. 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I cry for him sometimes. 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. It is a revolution. Ht6R*bs7n& LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. CANADA: Sure. endobj He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. endobj Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. Many of them. /Properties << And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. It's about those kids. endobj BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? Fox News. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. Wouldn't that have been better? SCARBOROUGH: All right. 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. 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. LEGEND: Yes. 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Take a look. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. /Pages 1 0 R /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Type /Page LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. We spruced up -- modernized the building. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. 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. Cross your fingers. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. << ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. 7 0 obj /Resources << I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. 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. 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 /Resources << SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. 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). BRZEZINSKI: All right. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? 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. >> The movie's major villains are the National SCARBOROUGH: Okay. Web2010. 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. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. /ExtGState << Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. 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. >> /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. WebSynopsis. >> LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. They do allow us to figure out what's working and we should replicate it and what's not and we should close those charter schools that arent working so that we actually develop a science in our business about what works in what kinds of environments and in what kinds of communities. We're not attacking teachers. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. >> CANADA: There are two things. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. [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.

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