waiting for superman documentary transcript

Nakia joins us here tonight. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. /T1_0 24 0 R Come on out. LESTE BELL, DAISYS TEACHER: She chose her college and she wrote a letter to the admissions and asking them to allow her to attend their college. endobj >> We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. Let me answer your question first. schools. /Rotate 0 Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? But you did. My kids have won the lottery. We love good teachers. Feb 22, 2013. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. RHEE: Thats correct. I've been amazed by what's possible. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. 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. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Length 868 What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. That is the problem. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. 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. /T1_0 20 0 R We have to take ownership. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. But I think that's false. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. Yes, first or second grade skills. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. Be the first to contribute. You talked about evaluations like every other business. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. /ExtGState << Film. << RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. 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? >> NAKIA: I was disturbed. (soundbite of film, "big george foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world") KHRIS DAVIS: (As George Foreman) Last time they saw me, I looked like Superman. We have to go to break right now. Thats just one of the great things that we see. /GS0 18 0 R The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. /Resources << This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. endobj I cry for him sometimes. /ExtGState << There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. << And that means get involved. 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. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. CANADA: Well you know what? Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. One of them is Nakia. "[9] Scott Bowles of USA Today lauded the film for its focus on the students: "it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children. << 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. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. Wouldn't that have been better? It's happening in D.C. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. /ExtGState << There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? Explain to me how that is good for children. An examination of the current state of education in America today. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. >> I mean, not all teachers are created equal. /Resources << Because we talked to Randi before. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. I get why that's good for the adults. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. An examination of the current state of education in America today. KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. It's happening in Los Angeles. /Type /Catalog But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. 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. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? >> 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. 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. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. We're in a crisis. 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. I said I don't want to go up. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. 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. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. 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. 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. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. /Parent 1 0 R If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. It was about a whole range of other issues. >> It matters who your local representative is. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. 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? >> /TT0 48 0 R ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN /Parent 1 0 R A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. SCARBOROUGH: Right. >> 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. I love teachers. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. 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. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. /GS1 17 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Right. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. /Contents 30 0 R Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. 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). /T1_0 24 0 R We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. Thank you so much. SCARBOROUGH: I tell you what, that was the part of the movie where Daisy, you saw her crossing her fingers and write physically got nauseated. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. /Font << The answer is no. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. Michelle and I love great teachers. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. /MC0 62 0 R 2 0 obj The superintendent wants her to say. But, Mondello Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. 1h 51m. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. 9 0 obj 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. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? 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. It's about those kids. You don't have all sorts of external rules. /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 ] And I was hurt. How do you get past that? We spruced up -- modernized the building. 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. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. >> /Font << 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. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. It starts with teachers becoming the very best, leaders removing the barriers of change, neighbors committed to their school, you willing to act (Guggenheim 1:45:05-1:45:28). [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.". << I know they are. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Davis? We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. You fought the law and the law won. Most of them. 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. /GS1 17 0 R [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. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. 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. /Properties << BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. Ht6R*bs7n& 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. /ExtGState << BRZEZINSKI: All right. /Properties << I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. /Pages 1 0 R I want the system to be better. >> DAISYS GATHER: Yes. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. BRZEZINSKI: All right. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] KENNY: Right. endobj Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? NAKIA: Shes 7 now. 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. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page When you put a face on this issue, as we talk about the details of it, that's the thing I keep saying to myself, let's not forget as we argue and discuss and learn about this, let's not forget the kids. I went up to a school up there. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." /T1_1 20 0 R But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly.

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