waiting for superman documentary transcript

We have to go to break right now. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. It matters who your local representative is. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? << "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. 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. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. /T1_1 20 0 R WebWaiting For "Superman" has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a PG. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. >> You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. endobj 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. I know, but you didn't have enough money. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. /MC0 31 0 R << CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. /T1_1 57 0 R After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. 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). Because there is no downside to failure. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. 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. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. 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. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. Ht6R*bs7n& 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. 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. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. 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. /MC0 34 0 R SCARBOROUGH: All right. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. NAKIA: Yes. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. /GS1 17 0 R 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. 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. 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. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? 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. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. 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. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] This is our country. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, 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. We have to go to break. "[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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 4,789 Views. WebSummaries. What are your thoughts? And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. >> GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. 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. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. /Rotate 0 You talked about evaluations like every other business. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. /T1_0 24 0 R BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? /Parent 1 0 R You don't come off well in this movie. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? By the nature of who my family is. Why is that? /Type /Page WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. 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. "[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. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av 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 I want to talk about New York for one second. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. That's the first thing. I was really tired. We'll be right back. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. Geoffrey Canada. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? But, Mondello 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. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. /ExtGState << stream It's not about charter schools. 1h 51m. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. /GS0 47 0 R "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. >> I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? 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. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public RHEE: First, I think I would be remiss if I did not point out to everybody that there's been a lot of talk about public schools, public schools. /Font << 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You think it was about -- let's be respectful. /T1_1 20 0 R /Rotate 0 First, I loved that town hall today. I've been amazed by what's possible. /ExtGState << John, tell us how you got involved in this. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. She was assigned in January. 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. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. I support public schools. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /Resources << Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. "[13] Variety characterized the film's production quality as "deserving every superlative" and felt that "the film is never less than buoyant, thanks largely to the dedicated and effective teachers on whom Guggenheim focuses. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. BRZEZINSKI: All right. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. RHEE: I do. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. Why? SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. We can't have our school system running like this. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of education is there's no turning back on reform in education in Washington, D.C. Our union is committed to it. 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. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. I'm feeling it. 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. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: There are two things. An examination of the current state of education in America today. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." stream I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. People couldn't believe you could do it. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. /GS1 17 0 R LEGEND: Who your state senator is. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. It's must-see TV. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. endstream I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. That means politically get involved. You cannot say -- you can't say, well, the problem with charter schools is they only serve some of the kids when in fact you are advocating for caps on those effective charter schools. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. Waiting for Superman. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Because we talked to Randi before. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. The superintendent wants her to say. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. 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. Come on out. American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. 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. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? 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. [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. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. >> The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. 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. Take a moment. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. 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. WEINGARTEN: Yes. 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. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It just came out this week. 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. 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. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. /Properties << BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. endobj RHEE: I don't think they are. Many of them. The principal wants her to stay. We have to take ownership. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. I love teachers. /Resources << }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} I want the system to be better. I have a good feeling about this. And the idea that we now can do it means that we have a very moment right now to say let's take those things, let's take those ingredients and bring them into mainstream schools. endobj If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. Fox News. That is the problem. "[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: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. Thats just one of the great things that we see. 2 0 obj So the question is, what's New York City doing right? They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time. 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 /Length 866 >> /GS0 18 0 R Take a look. RHEE: Yes, that's right. endobj SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. We're going to lose our nation. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. It is a revolution. [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.) They said, look, this work is hard. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. 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 . ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. Or it can't be done. But you did. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. /Rotate 0 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. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. >> We all have to move off self-interest. [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. One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. That means in the midterms. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. >> And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. It's about those kids. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. I went up to a school up there. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. In fact you come off quite badly. 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. Waiting for Superman.2010. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. 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. /Rotate 0 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. 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.

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