waiting for superman documentary transcript

Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb Why 'Waiting For Superman' Didn't Get An Oscar Nod : NPR I said I don't want to go up. CNN.com - Transcripts BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. RHEE: Thats correct. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. It's happening in D.C. [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." 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. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. Waiting for 'Superman /Parent 1 0 R WEINGARTEN: Look, what the unions actually talked about was as part of lifting the cap, as part of lifting the cap, they didn't fight against lifting the cap -- LEGEND: Yes, they did. /Properties << I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. 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. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. You believe it. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. 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. 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. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] endobj (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. And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. /Contents 36 0 R Thanks to all of our guests. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. 8 0 obj Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. 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: It was still painful. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. Waiting for Superman Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. /T1_1 57 0 R We'll come back and continue this. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. /Font << Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. Waiting For Superman Discussion Guide - Influence Film Club SCARBOROUGH: Right. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? /ExtGState << Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. Come on out. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? /GS1 17 0 R You talked about evaluations like every other business. The answer is no. WEINGARTEN: Im just -- that's why there was a cap from the early -- SCARBOROUGH: We have a lot of people that want get involved here. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] People -- but this room needs to get bigger. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. endstream I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. Guggenheim, Davis. Because we do understand if we're going to fix this problem, we're going to have to figure out how to get you guys together and make this work. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. It matters who your local representative is. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. Davis, god bless you. This is why. And that means get involved. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. stream /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[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. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. [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. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? Yes, there should be fairness. I was really tired. >> SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. All of my kids have gone to public school. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? >> Final words with our panel, next after a short break. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. Watch Waiting For Superman | Prime Video - amazon.com It's about those kids. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? We can't have our school system running like this. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. 10 0 obj 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. It was about a whole range of other issues. SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. How do you explain that to a child? The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. We all have to move off self-interest. /Resources << 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. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Video Analysis: Waiting for Superman - Trinity College All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. << And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 6 0 obj Documentary. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. 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: 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. It was not simply about education. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, 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. Or it can't be done. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. An examination of the current state of education in America today. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. Thats just one of the great things that we see. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. SCARBOROUGH: You also told me that there was a split in the civil rights community, that older members of the civil rights community sometimes fought younger members of the civil rights community who were reformers. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? >> /Parent 1 0 R ", "Film's anguished lesson on why schools are failing", "Protesting teachers give 'Waiting for Superman' an 'F', "Catching up with WAITING FOR SUPERMAN's Davis Guggenheim", "At the Critics' Choice Awards: Winners Are Social Network, Inception, Firth, Portman, Leo, Bale | Thompson on Hollywood", An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform, "Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal: Diane Ravitch Blasts Education Reform Star", "Waiting for Superman" star on cheating scandals, Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal, FRONTLINE: The Education of Michelle Rhee, "NYC teachers counter 'Waiting for Superman' with film of their own", "Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools", Critics Say Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools, Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, DallasFort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_%22Superman%22&oldid=1118430069, Documentary films about American politics, Documentary films about education in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 27 October 2022, at 00:08. endobj WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. We'll hear from the audience as well. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. /Parent 1 0 R You do not come off as the hero of this movie. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Let me answer your question first. 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. I know they are. >> She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. >> [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. We're not attacking teachers. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.". A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. /GS0 47 0 R /MC0 28 0 R Many of them. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Randi said something that was fascinating. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. 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. 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? 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 /Properties << 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. waiting for superman >> 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. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. SCARBOROUGH: Right. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. 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. /Contents 33 0 R Take a look. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. These are our communities. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. Waiting for Superman on iTunes Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. /GS0 18 0 R The attendance and the schools itself. /Im0 19 0 R Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. A preview of movies hitting theaters this spring : NPR She was assigned in January. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? Waiting for Superman/Transcript - The Altered Adventure /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. 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. RHEE: Yes, that's right. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. >> SCARBOROUGH: We really had. schools. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. The documentary follows Thank you for joining us. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. 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. endobj This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" "Geraldo at Large." /ExtGState << I'm feeling it. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. /Parent 1 0 R /Pages 1 0 R And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. Why is that? DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. I know, but you didn't have enough money. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: John. 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. Joe and I saw the movie a few days ago and we literally walked up Broadway, I think it was, in complete silence, both feeling very twisted and angry about what we had seen. NAKIA: I was disturbed. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. Now it's happening in Houston. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. 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. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? 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. /Parent 1 0 R 2 0 obj You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. What are your thoughts? We spruced up -- modernized the building. 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 /Filter /FlateDecode /Rotate 0 Where does the union take some responsibility in this? /T1_0 24 0 R We should let Randi respond. Waiting for Superman | Documentary Heaven RHEE: I do. 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.

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