CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. You have to live in the district. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. /Type /Page It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. SCARBOROUGH: Right. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. << WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. /GS0 18 0 R Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. << He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. endstream Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. I want the system to be better. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. You all have your numbers, right? WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? Nakia joins us here tonight. /Parent 1 0 R It was not simply about education. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. /ExtGState << There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? We'll hear from the audience as well. BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. People couldn't believe you could do it. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. 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. 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. We spruced up -- modernized the building. 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. The film portrays the deep sadness that Bianca and her mother feel when Bianca is not accepted into the charter school as the two embrace one another at the end and Nakia dries her daughters tears (Guggenheim 1:37:35). /MC0 28 0 R /Rotate 0 What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? This is our country. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. I'm just wondering. How do you get past that? How do we spread that from Harlem across America? /Font << "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. 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. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. >> You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. << They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. RHEE: Yes, that's right. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. Waiting for Superman.2010. 4 0 obj We're going to lose our nation. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. Thank you for joining us. Feb 22, 2013. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. It was about a whole range of other issues. We're not attacking teachers. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. The film also examines teacher's unions. I'm joking. What happened there? WebSynopsis. Kids coming into middle school and fifth grade with first grade reading abilities, leaving in eighth grade with a 100 percent proficiency, outscoring kids in Scarsdale, New York. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? Why is that such a frightening concept? These students range in 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. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. [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. We have to take ownership. Come on out. RHEE: I don't think they are. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. >> Davis, god bless you. SCARBOROUGH: All right. << Randi said something that was fascinating. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. I've been amazed by what's possible. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. The movie's major villains are the National These are your schools, your communities. /Contents [ 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R ] GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. PG. 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. [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.) >> /GS0 18 0 R 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 You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. Thanks to all of our guests. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. All of my kids have gone to public school. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. /Rotate 0 I like to follow the evidence. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. Cross your fingers. 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. 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. I was really tired. 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. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. 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. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. 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. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu It affects good teachers, too. But I think that's false. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. 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. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. 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. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. "Geraldo at Large." 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 should let Randi respond. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Fox News. /ExtGState << NAKIA: I was disturbed. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. 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. 1. The answer is no. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. I have a good feeling about this. In fact you come off quite badly. 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 Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose [30] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations. 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. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. How do you explain that to a child? Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. /Filter /FlateDecode Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up >> Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. /TT0 48 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. /T1_0 24 0 R endobj Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. Guggenheim, Davis. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. "[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. I love teachers. 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.