waiting for superman documentary transcript

WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. 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. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. /Type /Page SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Why did you pick this topic? SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. We spruced up -- modernized the building. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. WebSummaries. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up You know that process has to be fixed. Ravitch said that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. Guggenheim, Davis. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. /T1_1 20 0 R /Rotate 0 These are our communities. 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. Davis, god bless you. >> BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? I said I don't want to go up. /MC0 28 0 R If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. 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. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. /Rotate 0 << KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. << >> 9 0 obj 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. I support public schools. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? 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. WebGenre: Documentary Waiting for 'Superman' Screenplay Edit Buy Year: 2010 4,775 Views Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Ht6R*bs7n& Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. How do you get past that? 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. /GS0 47 0 R 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. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. /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 ] "[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. So we've got to open up this issue of innovation and we've got to make sure that in those places we allow real educators to come in and redesign this thing so it works. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. >> You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. endobj BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. We have to go to break. 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. We're in a crisis. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. NAKIA: I was disturbed. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? Thats just one of the great things that we see. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. Are you feeling agreement? I actually have teachers in my family who really think is this is a terrific movie because it exposes for them how complicated it is, how important it is to get great teachers in the classroom and what a difference they can make. You talked about evaluations like every other business. /Resources << GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. 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. But as long as we try to pretend that all teachers are the same, and that there are not great teachers and not so great teachers, then we are never going to be able to solve the problems. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. I like to follow the evidence. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. /GS0 18 0 R Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. "[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. What's going on here? BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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 /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. I think he wants to do the right thing. >> And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. 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. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. 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. 10 0 obj /GS1 17 0 R Because there is no downside to failure. Thank you so much. We're seeing all this great success in Harlem, there were forces that were trying to make sure that that couldn't be replicated on a larger scale. In fact you come off quite badly. /T1_1 20 0 R /Parent 1 0 R By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. Why is that such a frightening concept? We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. 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 /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. Why? SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. /Filter /FlateDecode 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. You said, you still cry every time you see it. 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. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. 1 0 obj Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. I want to talk about New York for one second. 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. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? >> 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. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. 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. We'll come back and continue this. 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). And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /Type /Page The film also examines teacher's unions. 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. /Type /Catalog BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. LEGEND: Yes. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. We'll hear from the audience as well. We can't have our school system running like this. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. 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. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Well you know what? Waiting for Superman. >> 3 0 obj }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. /Properties << /Resources << Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. It's happening in Los Angeles. /ExtGState << I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. RHEE: I don't think they are. Geoffrey Canada. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. 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. There's a cap in New York State because ultimately when George Pataki and I and others started to work on having charter schools in this state, there was an issue in terms of the economics and what would happen with moneys in terms of other districts. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. This is why. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. /Resources << WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. We love hard-working teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? You all have your numbers, right? 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. They'll talk about this issue. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. Nakia joins us here tonight. By the nature of who my family is. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu /MC0 31 0 R DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. The superintendent wants her to say. She was assigned in January. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. /MC0 62 0 R 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. Documentary. 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. 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: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. 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. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. "[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. You fought the law and the law won. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. 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. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. /Pages 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 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. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. I know, but you didn't have enough money. John, tell us how you got involved in this. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. /Properties << >> I get why that's good for the adults. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. /Contents 30 0 R ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. It affects good teachers, too. /T1_0 24 0 R RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. 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. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. These students range in There are core values we have to have. >> Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. /Count 5 (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. >> LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. /Properties << We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. << WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Film. It is a revolution. 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. /Parent 1 0 R 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. 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). But you did. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. 2 0 obj As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? (d acJ4@%Q8C/! And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. [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.) I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 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. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. And that is a concept that is so necessary. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. (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. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? You believe it, don't you, Michelle? Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? We're not attacking teachers. [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." SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. /Rotate 0 SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, 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. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose /Resources << The attendance and the schools itself. /Font << /T1_1 57 0 R SCARBOROUGH: They can't. When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. I want the system to be better. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? << The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great.

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