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/CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? /Filter /FlateDecode RHEE: I do. NAKIA: I was disturbed. Why is that? And it's just -- it changes your perspective. I think we all need to take more responsibility. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. >> 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. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. I want to talk about New York for one second. >> GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. That is the problem. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. One of them is Nakia. SCARBOROUGH: Right. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." What did you learn? You went into the lottery system for your daughter. And that means get involved. /Type /Page What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? I want to say something about what John just said. 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. >> 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. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online 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. 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. We're in a crisis. I think he wants to do the right thing. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. 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). If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Come on out. /Type /Page 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. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? We're not attacking teachers. 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. RHEE: It was actually 12 percent that were proficient in reading but he picked the better statistic because actually, only 8 percent of our children were proficient in math. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). We actually have to change the political environment. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." Waiting for "Superman" - Wikipedia /Count 5 Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth (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. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. That means in the midterms. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. "[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. Waiting For Superman /Rotate 0 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. endobj This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's a random selection. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. Ht6R*bs7n& SCARBOROUGH: It really is. RHEE: Heres the thing. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? >> /Contents 36 0 R It's not about charter schools. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. /Length 868 A teacher wants to stay. Go. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. /Pages 1 0 R 7 0 obj 1. stream >> 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. >> What have you been able to do with them? He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. This documentary follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, and undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. 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. /Font << BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. We all have to move off self-interest. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Nakia joins us here tonight. 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. >> [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. >> SCARBOROUGH: Right. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. [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. 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. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. RHEE: Yes, that's right. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. /Rotate 0 Waiting for Superman Documentary Analysis - Trinity WEINGARTEN: Yes. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." Geoffrey Canada has done it. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. << What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] [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." Most of them. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. 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. /Properties << This is why. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? /GS1 17 0 R American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. /T1_0 24 0 R The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. /MC0 28 0 R Documentary. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. We should let Randi respond. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. 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. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. The superintendent wants her to say. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. 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. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. Didn't get an answer on that. 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. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. waiting for superman movie transcript BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. 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). /GS0 18 0 R Video Analysis: Waiting for Superman - Trinity College /T1_1 20 0 R But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. The contract says she has to go. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? 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. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. << I cry for him sometimes. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. That's the first thing. 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. Why were you frightened to send her to school. 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. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to 10 0 obj >> /TT0 48 0 R And we need to have good evaluation systems. One of the most disheartening moments of the movie for me is when you were driving away from the meeting, your meeting, with the teachers, and it just showed your face. So we've got to open up this issue of innovation and we've got to make sure that in those places we allow real educators to come in and redesign this thing so it works. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. I was really tired. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. /Font << Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. "[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: The reformer. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Waiting for Superman.2010. WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. Michelle and I love great teachers. The movie's major villains are the National CANADA: There are two things. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. /Font << %PDF-1.3 You fought the law and the law won. "[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. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. /Font << We increased graduation rates. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We even tolerate mediocre teachers. [15] Deborah Kenny, CEO and founder of the Harlem Village Academies, made positive reference to the film in a The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about education reform. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. 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. & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? >> SCARBOROUGH: Okay. You said, you still cry every time you see it. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? /Filter /FlateDecode In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? These students range in A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. CNN.com - Transcripts Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. 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. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. endobj BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. >> BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. Geoffrey Canada. All of my kids have gone to public school. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. /T1_0 24 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. 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. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. 5 0 obj Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. You don't come off well in this movie. We're turning to you now. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Yes, there should be fairness. No one wants lousy teachers. 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. Waiting for Superman I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. Many of them. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. It matters who your local representative is. 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. /Parent 1 0 R /T1_1 20 0 R That's not the case with all charter schools across America. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. It's shameful. 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. Thank you for joining us. 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 Now it's happening in Houston. 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. These people are the ones making the decisions. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. 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. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. We'll hear from the audience as well. 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. 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. [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.) One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. >> /GS1 17 0 R Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. 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? 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. >> Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. This is our country. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. 1h 51m. 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. Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the It's happening in D.C. /Font << First, I loved that town hall today. << "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. My kids have won the lottery. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. 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). Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families,