waiting for superman documentary transcript

SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. 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 It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? << And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. Why were you frightened to send her to school. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. I think the question about whether school reform can continue at as an aggressive rate under him is whether hes going to be able to stand up to the fact that SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this Michelle. We increased attendance rates. 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. 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. 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. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. 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The contract says she has to go. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? 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. But you did. We're in a crisis. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. Why not? SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? >> Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av SCARBOROUGH: Okay. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] We'll be right back. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. >> But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. Now it's happening in Houston. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. 6 0 obj endstream BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, SCARBOROUGH: Right. 1 0 obj Guggenheim, Davis. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. My kids have won the lottery. Cross your fingers. 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. %PDF-1.3 /Type /Page The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. Waiting for 'Superman' the title refers to a Harlem educators childhood belief that a superhero would fix the problems of the ghetto won an Audience Award at /Properties << /Contents 33 0 R WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. << It's not about charter schools. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. How do you explain that to a child? 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. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. >> GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. Is there any give here? Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. /ExtGState << endobj I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? The superintendent wants her to say. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. /Contents 30 0 R Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. [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." 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. The fact that there are currently not enough spaces in American schools should also be viewed as one of the primary factors defining their failure to meet the needs of students (Guggenheim). As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). >> 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. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. Wouldn't that have been better? 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. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. WebSynopsis. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. /Type /Catalog We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. We increased graduation rates. 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. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. /Font << Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. 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. 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's happening in Los Angeles. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. The documentary follows And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. >> John, tell us how you got involved in this. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. It just came out this week. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. schools. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. /T1_0 20 0 R Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. 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. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. Come on out. Last Friday night I watched Davis Guggenheims new documentary, Teach, which was broadcast in on CBS.Guggenheim, you may recall, is the filmmaker who brought us Waiting For Superman, the shameless propaganda-fest that signaled the full-on nuclear stage of the corporate-driven war on public education (also known as the It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. /Type /Page But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. You don't have all sorts of external rules. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. [2] 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. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. It's happening in D.C. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. That's the first thing. I've never seen anything like it in my life. /Rotate 0 Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. 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. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. We'll come back and continue this. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. endobj WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Didn't get an answer on that. Thats just one of the great things that we see. We all have to move off self-interest. /Length 868 At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. Many of them. Are you feeling agreement? WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. A reminder for everyone, coming up right after this program, MSNBC will re-air that teacher town hall that was hosted by Brian Williams, that's from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time, right here on MSNBC. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. /T1_1 24 0 R This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. The union leaderships could take this on as a platform and say this is something we're going to commit to and give our membership behind this so we can show progress in taking on these issues. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. The movie's major villains are the National It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. CANADA: Sure. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Documentary. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? BRZEZINSKI: All right. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. We're going to lose our nation. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. /Rotate 0 CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. 4,789 Views. You all have your numbers, right? 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. /MC0 28 0 R /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] That's not the case with all charter schools across America. /XObject << We love hard-working teachers. /Length 866 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: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. I love teachers. 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. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? << It's shameful. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. 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