Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. WebSummaries. 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. CANADA: There are two things. We have to go to break right now. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Why? I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. We increased student achievement levels. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. /Rotate 0 Waiting for Superman. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. endobj I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. 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. People couldn't believe you could do it. [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. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. [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.". 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /MC0 28 0 R And it's just -- it changes your perspective. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling 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. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. 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. And that is a concept that is so necessary. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. GUGGENHEIM: The dream of making a movie like this is conversations just like this, the fact that you and NBC and Viacom and Paramount and Get School bring a movie to the table and let people in this room have a real conversation about to fix our schools is essential. 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? And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. I said I don't want to go up. 1. /GS0 18 0 R /Count 5 Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. It's happening in Los Angeles. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? The answer is no. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. RHEE: Thats correct. The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, We'll hear from the audience as well. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. PG. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. We actually have to change the political environment. SCARBOROUGH: Right. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth 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). We're just saying --. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? /Font << [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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). The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Because there is no downside to failure. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. RHEE: Heres the thing. >> 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. << 4 0 obj 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. /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] /T1_1 20 0 R During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. It reveals that the two major problems So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to >> /Resources << And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? >> There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. I'm feeling it. 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_1 20 0 R CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. It just came out this week. /GS0 18 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Right. 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). How do you explain that to a child? BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? 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. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. 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. 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 It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. /ExtGState << NAKIA: Shes 7 now. We increased graduation rates. No one wants lousy teachers. 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? /ExtGState << >> 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? We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. 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. But you did. We can't have our school system running like this. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. /Resources << For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. 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. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. /Length 866 Or it can't be done. SCARBOROUGH: All right. We need to have great curriculum. << It's shameful. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. << "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. /Properties << That's amazing. 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