They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. It's a random selection. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. /Contents 36 0 R 5 0 obj >> /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /CropBox [ 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. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. 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. "[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. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. /ExtGState << Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. Why is that? << You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. 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. It matters who your local representative is. Thats just one of the great things that we see. By the nature of who my family is. 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. >> >> You have to live in the district. >> RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. The documentary follows WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL Let me answer your question first. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". /GS0 47 0 R 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. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? We're just saying --. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. [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.) A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. >> 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 We increased graduation rates. We should let Randi respond. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? The attendance and the schools itself. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! >> NAKIA: Yes. /Filter /FlateDecode I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. /Resources << SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." 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. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. /MC0 31 0 R We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. First, I loved that town hall today. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. /Resources << 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. 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. We have to go to break. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. >> We have to take ownership. << /ExtGState << But I think it's quite frankly a little disingenuous for the union president to stand up and say we liked what Michelle was doing, we wanted it to continue to happen, when the national AFT poured $1 million into the campaign in Washington, D.C. a million dollars in a local mayoral race you know clearly sends a message that they didn't want things to continue as they were. What did you learn? Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote a negative review of the film, writing that while there's "a great deal that's appealing," there's also "as much in this movie that is downright baffling. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. It's must-see TV. Thanks to all of our guests. >> Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Filter /FlateDecode WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. So look, all of us on this stage, whether it's Geoffrey or Michelle or Davis, myself, the two of you, we all care passionately about the children. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. 1. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. 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. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? Davis, I want to go to you on this one. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. We're turning to you now. /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 ] BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. It's not about charter schools. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. 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. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R I think the point of departure between Michelle and I may be that I see, just like in Finland and Singapore and other places, that we need to all actually work together, focused on instruction, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they can and then -- BRZEZINSKI: Wasnt that what she was doing? "[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. SCARBOROUGH: All right. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. By showing its audience that even charter schools close their doors to some students, which them forces these students to attendfailing public schools, the video illustrates howthere are still flaws to the American public school system and challenges that need to be addressed. After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. >> BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. 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. But I think that's false. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. >> [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.