Are you feeling agreement? The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? /Count 5 Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. /MC0 62 0 R By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. We're turning to you now. (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. You have to live in the district. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: Yes. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. >> /ExtGState << /GS1 17 0 R That's amazing. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. I've never seen anything like it in my life. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. >> WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. 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. 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. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. 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). And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. Come on out. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Please help us welcome founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Washington D.C.'s school's chancellor, Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teacher's president Randi Weingarten and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 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. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. Yes, there should be fairness. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. >> What are your thoughts? And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? /MC0 34 0 R Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. 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. Film. >> The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. 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. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. WEINGARTEN: Im just -- that's why there was a cap from the early -- SCARBOROUGH: We have a lot of people that want get involved here. 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. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. The contract says she has to go. /GS1 17 0 R During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Davis, god bless you. BRZEZINSKI: You also knew that a little girl like Daisy can be a vet or a doctor or anything she wants to be if she's given the tools to do it. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] << "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? /ExtGState << Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. PG. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? /T1_1 20 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. Take a look. "[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. Ht6R*bs7n& << SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. I get why that's good for the adults. /Resources << They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. >> It's about those kids. << "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. RHEE: It was actually 12 percent that were proficient in reading but he picked the better statistic because actually, only 8 percent of our children were proficient in math. Most of them. /GS1 17 0 R DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. Waiting for Superman. People couldn't believe you could do it. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Why is that such a frightening concept? SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. RHEE: Thats correct. Thank you for joining us. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? 6 0 obj GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. /Properties << /Length 868 On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. /Type /Pages 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. [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.) SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. It affects good teachers, too. [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? RHEE: I don't think they are. RHEE: Heres the thing. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here.