9 0 obj CANADA: Can I just tell you this? You believe it, don't you, Michelle? KENNY: Right. 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. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. 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. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. >> Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, /ExtGState << 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. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? 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. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? LEGEND: Yes. WEINGARTEN: John. 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. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. endobj >> /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Resources << " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 This is our country. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. >> 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. SCARBOROUGH: All right. /Type /Page All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? Take a look. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. /GS0 18 0 R >> CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. 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. /Im0 19 0 R I said I don't want to go up. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. 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. RHEE: Yes, that's right. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. >> SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. John, tell us how you got involved in this. /Font << 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 All of my kids have gone to public school. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] endobj So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. NAKIA: Yes. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. We need to have great curriculum. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. Many of them. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? Through the stories of five children who wanted to attend a charter school, the film shows how one child was accepted and another child was accepted from the wait list while three children were not accepted at all. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. /Parent 1 0 R 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. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. 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. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? 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? So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. RHEE: I do. /Length 868 We increased graduation rates. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. >> BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? 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. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. 3 0 obj However, the film shows how even charter schools leave some children behind, as those who are not chosen by the luck of the draw in the lottery system, are not able to attend the charter schools of their choice. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Final words with our panel, next after a short break. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Davis? It matters who your local representative is. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. << BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? stream 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. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? It's about those kids. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. /GS0 18 0 R That means in the midterms. Its so interesting you say that because Mika, Chris, our EP, myself, everybody thats seen this movie says first of all, they break down and cry at the end of this movie and then when they go home and they look at their children, children who can go to really great schools, they look at their own children differently. /Properties << Let me answer your question first. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. I support public schools. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. This is why. My kids have won the lottery. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. It's about places that have failed for 30, 40, 50 years, we can't do the same thing this year that we did last year. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. Explain to me how that is good for children. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. But, Mondello And it's just -- it changes your perspective. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. The bottom line is, you cannot say that you support removing ineffective teachers when then I fire ineffective teachers and you slap me with lawsuits and you slap me with the grievances. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. And we need to have good evaluation systems. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.". We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] I love teachers. << This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". Davis, I want to go to you on this one. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Davis, god bless you. /Properties << >> "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. I'm feeling it. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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 I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. It's must-see TV. /Contents 36 0 R It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. But you did. 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). /Filter /FlateDecode Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. Randi said something that was fascinating. 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. 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It just came out this week. /Font << It was about a whole range of other issues. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. It reveals that the two major problems And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. By the nature of who my family is. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. I went up to a school up there. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Most of them. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. 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. >> GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. CANADA: Sure. And that means get involved. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. /Parent 1 0 R << /GS0 18 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Right. We're not attacking teachers. >> So the question is, what's New York City doing right?