waiting for superman documentary transcript

/Contents 36 0 R 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. We're turning to you now. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. RHEE: I do. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? 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. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. I'm joking. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. WEINGARTEN: John. That means politically get involved. 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. Web2010. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. It affects good teachers, too. She was assigned in January. 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. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." endobj There's a complete and utter lack of accountability for the job that we're supposed to be doing, which is producing results for kids. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. NAKIA: Yes. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. 10 0 obj >> Go. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. The superintendent wants her to say. Davis, god bless you. 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. The video explores several of the problems within the system, and tells the personal stories of several families and communities who have been impacted and disadvantaged by the broken education system. >> SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, We increased student achievement levels. Ht6R*bs7n& There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. This is our country. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] (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. [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. We love hard-working teachers. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. 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 just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. 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 it started to haunt me, the idea that kids in my own neighborhood, and I live in a pretty good neighborhood, aren't getting what my kids have. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. 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. Thats just one of the great things that we see. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? SCARBOROUGH: All right. 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). So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. >> You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. /Resources << Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. 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. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R 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). WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. LEGEND: We need to be clear, you know, sometimes it sounds like everybody is on the same team up here because we all sound like we agree. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. 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. "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. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Why were you frightened to send her to school. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. RHEE: Yes, that's right. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. /Rotate 0 Randi said something that was fascinating. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes You believe it. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. Or it can't be done. 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? endstream When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. Waiting for "Superman" streaming: where to watch online? /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. 2 0 obj (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. We increased attendance rates. 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. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. I want to say something about what John just said. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. /Filter /FlateDecode endobj And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. >> I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. >> /Font << << The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. RHEE: Heres the thing. I've been amazed by what's possible. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. 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. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu You said, you still cry every time you see it. /Properties << If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. /Properties << UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. >> 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. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Nakia joins us here tonight. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Let me answer your question first. What's amazing about these tears, I knew about the film for months and just knowing the system, I knew how it was going to end. My kids have won the lottery. "[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. "[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. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. stream S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? SCARBOROUGH: Right. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. We're going to lose our nation. Take a look. Many of them. /Resources << SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. 7 0 obj RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. /Font << He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. 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 . 6 0 obj LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. 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.