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. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. 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. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. You don't have all sorts of external rules. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. 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. 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. /Type /Page 4,789 Views. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. /Font << Michelle and I love great teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? Sept. 23, 2010. Yes, first or second grade skills. 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. 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. 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. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. And that is a concept that is so necessary. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. 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 SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? stream That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. 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. 1h 51m. It's happening in D.C. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. [32][33][34][35][36], A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? WEINGARTEN: Yes. 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. [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. /GS1 17 0 R We'll be right back. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? There are winners and losers. >> BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." 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. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. Most of them. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. /Properties << BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. You talked about evaluations like every other business. 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. Randi said something that was fascinating. 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. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. It's about those kids. RHEE: Heres the thing. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. /T1_0 24 0 R E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. 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 . /ExtGState << There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. Ht6R*bs7n& >> I think if we actually got to what constitutes a good teacher and had that kind of standard we'd all be in the same place on that and there are about 50 or 60 districts right now, I made a proposal in January about how to overhaul evaluation. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Because we talked to Randi before. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. SCARBOROUGH: All right. >> GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. /Parent 1 0 R "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us She was a teacher in Indianapolis. Waiting for Superman. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public << /Type /Pages We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: We really had. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. 6 0 obj 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. It affects good teachers, too. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. "Geraldo at Large." /ExtGState << I've been amazed by what's possible. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. How do you explain that to a child? 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. /Length 866 [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." /Contents 30 0 R You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. /Resources << The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. [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. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. 9 0 obj Guggenheim, Davis. /T1_0 52 0 R "[20], The film also received negative criticism. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. We're in a crisis. >> We actually have to change the political environment. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. 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. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu /Resources << I went up to a school up there. RHEE: Yes, that's right. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? /Parent 1 0 R [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. Web2010. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. >> UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. /Font << 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. We all have to move off self-interest. Go. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? endobj SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. You know, in Washington, D.C., under Mayor Fenty who arguably I think is the most courageous politician we have on these education reform issues, we did everything, arguably, that people wanted to see. DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. Feb 22, 2013. /Count 5 Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. You fought the law and the law won. endobj GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. NAKIA: Yes. 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 Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst-performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results.
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