waiting for superman documentary transcript

waiting for superman documentary transcript

We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. /Resources << 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's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. 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. 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). Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. 6 0 obj I think he actually wants to do the right thing. /Properties << Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. stream DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. "[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. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. The film shows how the audience members, filled with prospective students and their families, all sit with apprehensive looks on their faces as they anxiously listen to the names and numbers of the children who are called and are therefore accepted into the charter school by luck of the draw. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. Come on out. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? /MC0 28 0 R /Parent 1 0 R >> The bottom line is, you cannot say that you support removing ineffective teachers when then I fire ineffective teachers and you slap me with lawsuits and you slap me with the grievances. "Geraldo at Large." Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. 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 CANADA: Well you know what? 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 . endobj /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [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." You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. You said, you still cry every time you see it. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. What happened there? Because we talked to Randi before. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? /Type /Catalog You don't come off well in this movie. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. /Resources << I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. /XObject << << The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. << ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN 9 0 obj And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. >> /MC0 31 0 R /GS0 18 0 R It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. /Rotate 0 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. The attendance and the schools itself. >> SCARBOROUGH: What we hear, Randi, morning after morning after morning from progressives, from conservatives, from Republicans, from Democrats, from independents, seems to be the same thing. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. Michelle and I love great teachers. 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. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. >> We're going to lose our nation. >> 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. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? >> Sept. 23, 2010. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? /Type /Page /T1_1 24 0 R 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. I was really tired. >> "[10] Joe Morgenstern, writing for The Wall Street Journal, gave the film a positive review writing, "when the future of public education is being debated with unprecedented intensity," the film "makes an invaluable addition to the debate. 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. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. Is there any give here? 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. 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. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. No one wants lousy teachers. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /TT0 48 0 R BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. Many of them. There are core values we have to have. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. /ExtGState << 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: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. WebSummaries. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. /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 ] /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose RHEE: Yes, that's right. But you did. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. Waiting for Superman. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. 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. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. /GS0 18 0 R /T1_0 52 0 R Why did you pick this topic? >> I get why that's good for the adults. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. We love hard-working teachers. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? endstream If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. 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. What's going on here? GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. 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. >> endobj GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. It's happening in D.C. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. I know they are. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. KENNY: Right. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. How do you get past that? WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. >> RHEE: I don't think they are. We'll come back and continue this. 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. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. 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 This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. endobj "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. 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. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. /T1_0 20 0 R Why not? /Type /Page "[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. 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. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. 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 << 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 film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. The contract says she has to go. 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. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. >> /Type /Page 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. >> I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. That means in the midterms. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. << 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up I love teachers. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. I think we all need to take more responsibility. It's not about charter schools. WebSynopsis. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. A teacher wants to stay. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. 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. 1 0 obj 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. /Properties << Web2010. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. %PDF-1.3 You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. 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? There are really, really bad charter schools across America. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. It just came out this week. /ExtGState << WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. I like to follow the evidence. These students range in /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! 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. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. You don't have all sorts of external rules. We have to go to break. 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? /Resources << By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? 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? Documentary. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. And I was hurt. We're not attacking teachers. 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. >> I want the system to be better. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? Are you feeling agreement? 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