waiting for superman documentary transcript
Take a look. Through the stories of five children who wanted to attend a charter school, the film shows how one child was accepted and another child was accepted from the wait list while three children were not accepted at all. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. NAKIA: I was disturbed. >> The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] >> RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. We love good teachers. endobj RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. It just came out this week. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. /Contents 36 0 R << I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. /Resources << CANADA: Can I just tell you this? You said, you still cry every time you see it. 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? LEGEND: Yes. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. >> We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. >> 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. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. One of them is Nakia. 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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. 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. Thanks to all of our guests. 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. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. These students range in I love teachers. I'm feeling it. 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. RHEE: Thats correct. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. You fought the law and the law won. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. 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 I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. [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. You don't have all sorts of external rules. >> I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. Didn't get an answer on that. 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. So people keep talking about accountability just in terms of firing teachers but what I think people need to understand is how accountability allows you to unleash teacher passion by setting on fire all the teachers in the school because you're allowed to give them the freedom to teach the way they see fit. Film. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. That's amazing. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. << But, Mondello It is a revolution. 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 Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Michelle and I love great teachers. You have to live in the district. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. Waiting for Superman. 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. I support public schools. 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). The superintendent wants her to say. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. << [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. & 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. Guggenheim, Davis. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. 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. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, >> RHEE: I don't think they are. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 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. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. << CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. How do you get past that? And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? I'm joking. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] What's going on here? And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. Connecticut and Hartford education policy resources, Creating a Dual-Language Magnet School for Hartford Region, Sources on Trinity student protests since 2007, Jack Dougherty and Trinity College Educ 300 students, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, An Uncommon Critique: How A Charter Networks Success Safeguards Student Experiences, The Evolution of Gender Inequality At Trinity College: A Study Through Different Publications, Higher Education for Dreamers After the Failed DREAM Act. I've been amazed by what's possible. Yes, first or second grade skills. My kids have won the lottery. IE 11 is not supported. 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. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. >> We'll come back and continue this. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. >> I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. We should let Randi respond. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. /Properties << /Contents 33 0 R 6 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Pages We'll be right back. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. stream And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. SCARBOROUGH: All right. 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. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Feb 22, 2013. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. /Type /Catalog He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. The film also examines teacher's unions. /Parent 1 0 R (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. What are your thoughts? SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Why is that? /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 ] RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. stream /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] These are our communities. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the Let me answer your question first. Most of them. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel.
