waiting for superman documentary transcript

>> >> It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. CANADA: Sure. /Parent 1 0 R We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. Geoffrey Canada has done it. 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 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. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? You don't have all sorts of external rules. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. /T1_0 24 0 R First, I loved that town hall today. /Contents 36 0 R You went into the lottery system for your daughter. SCARBOROUGH: Right. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us That's amazing. /Type /Page The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. We're going to lose our nation. 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. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Filter /FlateDecode BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. 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BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? They'll talk about this issue. /ExtGState << Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. 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. NAKIA: I was disturbed. We'll be right back. 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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. endobj So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. Waiting For Superman Discussion Guide - Influence Film Club 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. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. 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. stream But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. 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. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. >> /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 ] endstream Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? [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." BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. "[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. %PDF-1.3 << It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? 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. John, tell us how you got involved in this. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 It starts with teachers becoming the very best, leaders removing the barriers of change, neighbors committed to their school, you willing to act (Guggenheim 1:45:05-1:45:28). I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. [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.". The film also examines teacher's unions. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. Nakia joins us here tonight. I support public schools. Geoffrey Canada. 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? 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). [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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. Didn't get an answer on that. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. /ExtGState << Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. How do you get past that? "[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. /Parent 1 0 R SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. But you did. Waiting for "Superman" streaming: where to watch online? It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 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. 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. endobj So the question is, what's New York City doing right? One of them is Nakia. We all have to move off self-interest. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. 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. Watch Waiting For Superman | Prime Video - amazon.com SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. endobj 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. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. People couldn't believe you could do it. /GS0 18 0 R I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb RHEE: Yes, that's right. "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV These are our communities. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? RHEE: I do. 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. /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. I know, but you didn't have enough money. << I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Video Analysis: Waiting for Superman - Trinity College /GS0 18 0 R I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. Fox News. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 6 0 obj There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. This is our country. I think he wants to do the right thing. The answer is no. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. You believe it. >> It was about a whole range of other issues. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. 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 and Failing Public Schools - The New WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. 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. /Type /Catalog UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. 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. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. 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 Web2010. endobj Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Take a moment. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 1 0 obj 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. Waiting for Superman.2010. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} /Resources << We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. >> 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.

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