/MC0 62 0 R /Length 866 John, tell us how you got involved in this. endobj >> That means in the midterms. We increased graduation rates. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: Yes. /MC0 34 0 R 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. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the << >> Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. /T1_1 57 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode WebWaiting For Superman (871) 7.4 1 h 51 min 2010 X-Ray PG The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery for access to New York City's best charter DAISYS GATHER: Yes. endobj We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. Waiting for Superman [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. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} /T1_0 24 0 R LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? 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. 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 GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. Ht6R*bs7n& The documentary follows What did you learn? CANADA: Well you know what? [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time.

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