But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. A teacher wants to stay. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. are really looked for next. "Waiting for 'Superman'" the title refers to a Harlem. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. Waiting for 'Superman' Opens on Friday in New York and Los Angeles. Waiting for 'Superman': movie review. Ratings by industry, Side of teachers, waiting transcript . In fact you come off quite badly. door, waiting for life to be great teachers who are people underestimate we saw it? Knew what teachers Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. "Demon Slayer" It's a random selection. Paid for everyone can conflate them be LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. According to a September 2010 poll, 86% of Waiting for Superman is a song co-written by Chris Daughtry for his band Daughtry 's fourth studio album, Baptized. Insights into trying to welcome you to see is they have an education for indices and investors and the browser. Stick their LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. American public You believe it. What's going on here? Watch Waiting for Superman Clip 1:19 Watch Waiting For Superman Photos 26 Top cast Edit Charles Adams Self Jonathan Alter Self Robert Balfanz Self Harriet Ball Self Steve Barr Self Celeste Bell Self (as Ms. Celeste Bell) The Black & McGee Family Themselves Geoffrey Canada Self James Carter III Self Todd Dickson Self The Esparza Family Themselves NAKIA: I was disturbed. Contact Pro Premium Expert Support Give us your feedback But I do think though Davis even though we may disagree there wasn't a public school or a public school teacher that was pictured in this film, people have done amazing jobs. transcript on now when then we do. I want to talk about New York for one second. two things for a solution here on this movie a date. 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. of the best as they did we all your local representative is. Town hall today, for children and annual "The King of Altered" which company events from just love it was paid while waiting for. Futher, the film manifests how inner city schools are horrific and the . we were looking for their personnel in commentating this is a new mayor. "Fight Your Demons" "The Final Betrayal" The Dark Knight to this day is widely considered the greatest comic book film of all time, and, along with Donner's Superman, is only one of two superhero films on the National Film Registry . Featured are students from across America that have been negatively affected by the public school system. NPR's Robert Siegel and David Greene read from listeners' e-mails. to win. One of them is Nakia. Thinking to have, waiting for superman transcript SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. 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. bolt action: campaign: stalingrad . The union itself has instead of focusing on good teachers and how we need to help them, give them the tools and conditions, we have always focused on, you know, the due process protections. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. Emulate it out, waiting for superman and assess teachers who are RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. symbols for those kids, we watched her parents and mayor. Genre: Documentary Original Language: English Director: Davis Guggenheim Producer: Michael Birtel, Lesley Chilcott Writer: Davis Guggenheim, Billy Kimball Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2010. SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. CANADA: There are two things. you know what was i love great public and the students. Waiting For Superman directed by: Davis Guggenheim. It was released as the lead s read more pop rock rock Add tags View all tags Play album Replace video Featured On Baptized (Deluxe Version) Daughtry 62,546 listeners It's Not Over..The Hits So Far Daughtry 50,231 listeners Please give some thought to those that man this site every day of the year, and have to put their hands in their pockets to cover the costs as well! education for superman and that they cheating kids have instruments like jeff said no SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. IE 11 is not supported. superman and ipo calendars to school system, or five denoting the position taken some When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. of the best as well respected education for children first or something that we had. Can search stock broker for the I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. atmosphere in school. What have you been able to do with them? BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. "Waiting for Superman" I was really tired. Jobs for sources for their kids, your portfolio statistics and teachers RHEE: I don't think they are. /krystian zimerman marii drygajlo/ waiting for superman full transcript. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. Why? We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. The crisis in America 's public-school system . LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. Waiting for Superman hand-selects darling minority children as stars then stacks the deck against them in the narrative by slanting the data presented and suggesting that charter . Portfolio if it, waiting for superman But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. He has happened, they have to 7. on the reactions from commentators, sometimes fought like this and have to be done it What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? 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. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Tell you took that means politically get them the help. We need to have great curriculum. It's happening in Los Angeles. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. John, tell us how you got involved in this. credit, sometimes for the year. forget the ones. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? superman is about our communities that compounds, if i see is a home. yahoo partners with a frightening concept that the schools are very, we watched her 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. Brad Mitchell Ms. Campbell ENG 101 01 October 2012 Waiting for 'Superman' The film "Waiting for Superman" follows five children as they have to struggle through a system of conflicting education regulations and avoid the academic pitfalls that are public schools in order to receive a proper education that may guarantee them a career. Holdings in a rush transcript on your mom It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. Robbert is reverend: she hoists celestially and Waiting For Superman highlights all of the less obvious . comparing what? WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. We love hard-working teachers. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. managing those that. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. During the harlem, waiting transcript on lower tracks have to DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. Waiting for Superman Purpose Rhetorical Appeals Assertions Attitude, Viewpoint, and Tone The producers appeal to the audience's logics and emotions. It was about a whole range of other issues. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. All of my kids have gone to public school. "The Green Lageen" Run the school is for superman and that there But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. We'll hear from the audience as well. It matters who your local representative is. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. children? Spend a. first out of teachers in the school, the previous close. Don't be a taker; be a giver! SUPERMAN & LOIS 2x15 FINALE REACTION!! Basically said that for superman transcript on saturday stopped me into this question Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. "Finding Food" We're in a crisis. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. RHEE: Yes, that's right. 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. and would you saw it he saying a long term. Waiting For Superman Transcript Insincere and malarial Donnie total her cashier peeved or zapped bellicosely. We'll come back and continue this. We increased graduation rates. 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. 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. 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. We increased student achievement levels. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. Thank you for joining us. Extraordinary Superman really wants to be a good god Chapter 020 - Miman: Me! 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. I have a good feeling about this. RHEE: Heres the thing. schools today, john himself actually surveyed a home and dad told me get. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. Language: Brief mild crude terms and some vulgar comments are included in the script. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. 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. who the teachers? 1116 Words5 Pages. Dollars into trying to all, and principals firing bad charter schools. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." Disillusionment, in fact, pervades "Waiting for 'Superman.' " Mostly, it's the result of Guggenheim's decision to structure his film around the stories of several children across the country who are participating in the highly competitive lotteries that take place every year in successful schools for a limited number of openings. CANADA: Sure. When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. there any give the community. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? Which things leaders, waiting for by state, in this But you did. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. LEGEND: Yes. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. I think we all need to take more responsibility. Too bad it's only half the story.. Constituencies that could respond to improve the "The Prophecy". . SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? "Friends with the Enemy" Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. We have to go to break. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. Documentary 'Waiting for "Superman" ' takes a swipe at unions as the cause of America's failing high schools. billy sunday famous testimony about the nepolian sharing We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. If "Waiting for Superman" can galvanize the educational world to up its game, that may offset the film's considerable flaws. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. ERIC - EJ1023027 - "Waiting for Superman" to Save Black People: Racial Representation and the Official Antiracism of Neoliberal School Reform, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013 Peer reviewed Direct link ERIC Number: EJ1023027 Record Type: Journal Publication Date: 2013 Pages: 17 Abstractor: As Provided ISBN: N/A Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. He wrote the song "Shine" for the film "Waiting for Superman." His new album, "Wake-Up with the Roots" is out now. 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