waiting for superman documentary transcript
/MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. We increased attendance rates. I think we all need to take more responsibility. 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. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. 2 0 obj WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. She was assigned in January. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? 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. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. 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. << HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. >> CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. That is the problem. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: All right. 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. Most of them. 4 0 obj 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? SCARBOROUGH: Right. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? DAISY: I want to be a nurse. What did you learn? The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. 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. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? Why did you pick this topic? The movie's major villains are the National BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. >> 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. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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 . endstream /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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's must-see TV. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. 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). [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: Davis, let's begin with you. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." /Type /Page Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? Because there is no downside to failure. We increased graduation rates. No one wants lousy teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. John, tell us how you got involved in this. 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. CANADA: There are two things. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. A teacher wants to stay. It was about a whole range of other issues. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. There are winners and losers. All of my kids have gone to public school. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. They'll talk about this issue. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. I want to talk about New York for one second. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. I was really tired. /Contents 36 0 R /ExtGState << You know that process has to be fixed. It is a revolution. >> /Rotate 0 DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. The contract says she has to go. This is our country. endobj Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public Is there any give here? It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. /Type /Page The principal wants her to stay. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. 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. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. /ExtGState << BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. Wouldn't that have been better? That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. [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. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? 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. 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. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? Why not? /Parent 1 0 R I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. /Count 5 And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. "[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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I support public schools. [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.) 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. It's not about charter schools. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. Are you feeling agreement? You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. 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. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. /Filter /FlateDecode And we need to have good evaluation systems. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /GS1 17 0 R If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? 5 0 obj JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. 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 DAISYS GATHER: Yes. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? These are our communities. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. /Type /Catalog The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? We'll come back and continue this. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. Geoffrey Canada has done it. /Parent 1 0 R 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. << [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. Since charter schools do not operate with the same restrictions as public institutions, they are depicted as having a more experimental approach to educating students. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. 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. It's happening in Los Angeles. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. >> >> >> /T1_0 24 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 Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. These are your schools, your communities. 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? By Stephen Holden. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. 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. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. In fact you come off quite badly. /XObject << /Resources << Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. 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. /Font << LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. >> It matters who your local representative is. >> The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. I think he wants to do the right thing. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. WebFILM SUMMARY With passion and urgency, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN advocates for the educational welfare of Americas children in a public school system that is severely 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. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. Waiting for Superman. Feb 22, 2013. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. One of the most disheartening moments of the movie for me is when you were driving away from the meeting, your meeting, with the teachers, and it just showed your face. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. People couldn't believe you could do it. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. That's the first thing. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R Didn't get an answer on that. We're in a crisis. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? 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.
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