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If you liberals ever pull your head out of your arse, reality is not utopia, WAKE up! Not everyone has an enlightened conscience like you. you cannot deprogram humanity , all these aholes complaining of failing schools should participate in making the school better rather than say " the system is broken". The schools are an extension of or communities.
the "good, little children" would all go to the LIBRARY to STUDY and do their HOMEWORK!
They would also drink their milk and eat all their vegetables!
I'm still waiting for the T.V. reality show where Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, Davis Guggenheim, et al. attempt to teach Remedial Math at a junior high in the inner-city!
If liberals ever pull your head out of your arse, reality is not utopia, WAKE up! Not everyone has an enlightened conscience like you. you cannot deprogram humanity , all these aholes complaining of failing schools should participate in making the school better rather than say " the system is broken". The schools are an extension of or communities.
1950-private Catholic school: Sister Ann grabbed him by the ear, took him to the sink and washed his mouth out with soap. He never cursed in school again. Neither did any of his classmates.
2011-public school: A panel of experts deliberated for hours on strategies on how to help Billy's teacher with her classroom management. The team decides that the TEACHER needs more professional development!
I am a high school junior from Phoenix who is angry because her math teacher hates teaching. I love math, and it's frustrating to know that some teachers (like my math teacher) hate their jobs however refuse to leave it because they enjoy the getting many days off. It's even more frustrating when our school does not fire the teacher for whatever reason despite extensive requests by good students. THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM.
God bless the hard-working, dedicated, and BRAVE teachers who risk their lives daily in order to teach the children of the inner-city!
According to Uniform Crime Report statistics compiled by the FBI, there were 1,437.7 VIOLENT CRIMES per 100,000 people reported in the District of Columbia in 2008.
There were 5,104.6 property crimes per 100,000 reported during the same period.
VIOLENT CRIME was 3 times the national average of 454.5 reported offenses per 100,000 people in 2008.
I would like to see you attempt to teach a remedial math class at a junior high in Compton or Watts?
You wouldn’t last a week!
God bless the hard-working dedicated inner city teachers who risk their lives daily! Teaching the children of gang-members,drug-addicts, prostitutes, illegal immigrants, poverty-stricken families, etc. Many times, going beyond the call of duty to help those people!
The part in this movie where she talks to the head of the teacher's union is ENRAGING. They made their decision before they even showed up to the meeting.
Clearly there's money involved in this somewhere. There's no other reason for people to be so pigheaded and unreasonable. The U.S. is doomed. Plain and simple.
I just watch the movie and it moved me. We are living in a time where we spend more money on jails and prisons than we do on children's' education. It will take us as citizens to make the change and demand for better public school systems. How long can we wait for the next reform?
I did not see the video before making my comment and still have not, but someone wrote he was in Africa, Africa is a continent ( Hope i wrote that correctly) and they have computers too. I'm almost certain there books and museums. ( nobody should called me ignorant because I'm stating fact) some people may not be able to pay out a lot of money etc, but they can work with in there budget.
they recently made another movie that seem similar to this one, it's called " waiting for superman." But I do feel families shouldn't have all of there hope into these lottery.
The kids that talk loud and laugh during the movie! The ones that throw popcorn at the screen! The ones that run up and down the movie aisles. The ones that keep getting up to go to the bathroom! Those kids!
Do you think those kids could sit down for a 45 minute Math Lesson?
They can't sit still during a movie! You think they are going to pay attention to their math teacher?
So, who do we blame? The teacher? The administrators? The parents? Or the kids?
Sounds like my school. The only way we could get in my high school was by the lottery..I got in because the day before it was time to go back o school, someone dropped out && my name was picked
its a good school..pretty hard work, but I love it.. I'm glad I got in :)
Taxpayers would be appalled, if they knew the amount of money that goes to pay the exorbitant salaries of so-called administrators.
People with fancy titles by their name, but do NOTHING that benefits students.
(e.g. Curriculum Directors, Assessment Coordinators, Program Managers, Educational Consultants, etc!) People that have been out of the classroom in years, and are absolutely CLUELESS!
" . . . wined and dined by the big publishing companies."
I wish their was a way to seperate the little black kids who have a chance and the ones who will be prison inmate #182762561. I guess at least those parents care enough to show up at those lotteries and want to give their kids an education, when so many ghetto families resemble the movie "Precious" whos kids have no chance.
The problem is a combination of the teacher unions that refuse to fire an incompetent teacher because they don't want to lose a due paying member as well as parents. You cannot tell me that when 7 out of 10 children in the black community are born out of wedlock, that this fact has no bearing on their academics. If you place a child, of any race, into a situation where their parents do their homework with them every night and read to them everyday, that child will be successful.
Parents need to step up and educate their children and in some cases themselves. I admit I need work but I am going to the library and taking online courses to help my child. I also had to pay for my college classes and get myself through high school. If you want something bad enough you find a way to get it. RESPONSIBILITY! It takes time. Make it! Your child is worth it! Watch 1 less tv show and teach your child something!
@TheCarr122105 I commend you for your efforts, but with the way its set up, its simply not good enough. People give the library all these magical powers. You can read every book in there, but if you lack the application and critical thinking, it doesn't matter. Teaching how to comprehend what you read is what matters, and 80% of all adults cant do that.
A kid from Beverly Hills can graduate with a 4.6 GPA, and go to the library less if not the same, and their parent dont do shit either.
Abolish the Federal Department of Education!!! It is a insult to the American people for such a bureaucratic organization to tell us how to teach our children. I don't care if its Bush or Obama. Put the power back in the hands of the parents!!!!
The system is designed for Blacks, and Latinos to fail. The last thing they want is an educated man of color. The drugs, and guns in our community is not by coincidence neither...Its GENOCIDE. If we armed ourselves to protect ourself from this then we are trouble makers, terrorist, militants, communist. The white Tea Party has armed themselves but that is called civil rights. The revolution will not be televised..
@YOLT1952 If you actually paid attention to the "true" tea party movement you would see that we are against the federal department of education and the federal reserve which are two things that continue to increase the gap between the poor and middle class from the rich. And anyone in the "city" is considered a trouble maker if they have a gun no matter what their color.
Notice how the nwo is always putting out the message of gambling, lottery, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and etc. This is nothing but mind manipulation that the 2nd semester is explaining in TADS. The explain is in the movie called "The Island" which I recommend everyone to see.
@TellYourFolks You could accomplish a more equal distribution of funds by simply attaching the funding to the child. Let parents decide which school their child will attend and funding follows the child. This is sort of system is a huge success in Europe. College kids tuition assistance grants are attached to them and not the school location. By introducing choice school districts can also offer specialty schools that pick various areas of study. Abandon the one size fits all education.
@TellYourFolks I'm trying to tell you that lack of money is not the problem. Not even a little. Public schools get tons of money - what they do with it is the problem. Teacher ineptitude and Union corruption is the problem. Besides Reason-TV, who are at the forefront of the school choice battle, check out a video called, "America's Culture of Blame" by Sonja Schmidt [stick with it, I promise it's related]. It's a great place to start. Don't form quick opinions, take my advice and look it up.
@TellYourFolks Honey - that is the result! Don't you understand? Teacher's Unions get too much, while students get too little, and even the lowest performing schools keep requesting more funding and nothing ever improves. Funding is misappropriated - it has been for decades. School boards are corrupt. This is 2010 and we still have high school kids who cannot read, yet we keep throwing money at the problem, and teacher's pensions get more and more exorbitant. Please just watch Reason-TV.
@TellYourFolks Evenly distributed money - to teacher's unions. That's the entirety of the problem dear. Students get nothing - teachers and administrators get everything, and produce little. Democrats have had a vise grip around the whole bureaucratic system for decades now - time to try something else, wouldn't you say? Don't take my word for it. Reason TV has done a great deal of research on this issue. Vote for Democrats more! hahaha! wow.
I know this film is about inner city schools, but we live in the suburbs and our schools have much of the same problems - violence, gangs, failure at competence in reading and math. Yet the teachers unions are always screaming for more money "for the kids". We've had our property taxes raised many times in the 12 years we've lived here. We can't afford private school, so we homeschool. We educate three kids for a fraction of what our school district spends on one kid per year.
The teachers unions MUST take responsibility also. Charter schools work, school vouchers work, on-line schools work, what does not work is the clinging to the status quo. Disband the Dept. of Education and start creating what is best for each community at the state level. The future of our children depends on it.
@jakefree24 Perhaps the fact that you insist on referring to them as monsters, and spreading your racism and hate is part of the reason they did not wish to "learn, behave or work." The other thing that "doesn't lie" is a school system that allows it students to be marginalized and subjected to a kind of racial arrogance that somehow makes it okay for students to be undertaught. Hate and intolerance have no place in the classroom.
@FreecycleFriend--how do we know that this man is NOT doing those things that you listed? it's dangerous to make those kinds of assumptions when we only get a snapshot ...just like you said in your comment to @alicia27free. just saying.
The man asks "What can I do?...I'm just waitin' fo' th' lotto." He can take responsibility for educating his own child(ren). He can take them to the library & museums, read to them at home, tour gov't buildings, visit hisorical areas of town, go to the park or other natural areas, teach the Constitution; request educational and creative supplies on Freecycle and similar free-gifting groups (accessed from library computers). He can let his children use the thousands of educational web sites...
@FreecycleFriend Following up with what @therhouse said, it is also possible that he is unable to do many of those things. Perhaps he is working full-time or more, perhaps he lacks his own educational background to make those at-home educational decisions. It's also very possible that he IS doing some of those things.
Libraries maybe. But have you been to a library in a lower income area. Not so pretty and clean. How does a parent educate their own child when they weren't educated themselves and are at a 1st grade level? I'm on Freecycle and everytime I give something to get something on Freecycle I have yet to get something I have WANTED and I'm not even asking for much.
You want that man to have his child on an educational website, when they probably don't have a computer.
@FreecycleFriend you are so right! But, unfortunately a lot of these parents aren't educated enough themselves to know these things! And because of that work endless hours trying to support their families, it's a vicious cycle, our educators are getting paid to do a job and frankly they NEED to step up!
all the activities you mention should only be enhancements and not replacements. it is not up to parents to teach the constitution, how government works or history. would you go to a podiatrist for heart palpitations? no. you go where you expect to get the right information. though there are issues with how teachers are trained, it's still better to have students go to school where a teacher's job is to educate.
@FreecycleFriend yeah, he and other parents can do all that, while the teachers get their lifetime medical and dental and the really bad (like abusive and perverted)tenured ones go to the district rubber rooms all day and recieve their full pay for no work. you are totally right; we should just do that.
@FreecycleFriend Clearly you haven't watched the movie. He's a good man and he's doing the best he can for his son. You bashing him on YouTube isn't going to help his son Christian get into a better, SAFER school.
@DJAR1E No, he/she didn't see the movie. He/she saw a snipet of someone's life and assumed that the man wasn't doing what he needed to do for his child...like most arrogant people who just happened to be "proud" of being Americans...We need to tell other Americans who marvel in ridiculing people who they perceive to be different, to just shut the hell up & stop being proud of being "American." That is not what America should be about.
@FreecycleFriend I think, perhaps, you need to see the film first before you make degrading comments. The man that you ridiculed is from the Ivory Coast, Africa, which is why he talks with an accent. The irony in you ridiculing him is that most AMERICANS couldn't locate on a map-the continent of Africa, nor the region is which this man derives. How do you know that he wasn't already doing what your prescription ordered? Your comment is most of what is wrong with America.
@FreecycleFriend Oh yeahj, well how woill he get access to those websites if he doesnt have a computer? How is it that no one makes him aware of these websites?! A DECENT EDUCATION IS NOT A PRIVELEDGE IT IS A RIGHT AND WE ARE ROBBING CHILDRESN, SPECIFICALLY BLACK/LATINO CHILDREN OF THAT RIGHT!!
@Bladestar7 Most families have at-least one internet device. and most libraries and schools have computers, that children can access after school or during school hours. Theirs no excuse unless he lives underneath a rocks, there are plenty of search engine. ( Google, Bing, yahoo, etc) which he can look up different educational things for his kids. Everyone can that wont to give there kids a better life. :)
@MONIQUEIJ The fact remains that we must improve our public schools to the level that our children deserve. If we want better teachers,we must give them better support/tools as wella s pay. The problem is not the children, or the teachers, it is the system that is in place.
@FreecycleFriend 15+ years old etc.... There are hundreds of thousands of adults/parents in this situation. Don't you think if it could be solved with a "quick jaunt to the library/museum" they would have done it already? The problem here is much bigger than that.
@FreecycleFriend you must first take into account his level of resources and/or socioeconomic status. A visit to the library to you might mean "educational and creative supplies". But when taking into account his living situation of a residential area that is majority low income, there aren't as many resources because there IS no advocate there to demand for books that are
@FreecycleFriend You are ignorant man. Did you even watch the movie? The guy that says that ACTUALLY is teaching is kid at home. His kid is number one or number two in his class at the zone school. The kid is learning. It's about gaining the chance to an amazing education. PROFESSIONAL teachers who can make his son graduate college. Don't be too quick to judge.
obviously you have no idea what your talking about. If you actually saw the film that man is actually DOING ALL THOSE THINGS YOU ARE SAYING...but his kid HAS to go to a failing public school (you can only attend the school that belong to your zone) and his only choice out is if he wins the "lotto". None of those things you mentioned can replace actual real classroom education.
Where is all the love for children when Charter schools refuse special needs students from entering the lottery? Where is the love for the children when Charter schools kick kids out with just 20 days left in the school year? Nice promo , but how about the truth. "More than 80% of charter schools perform at the the same or worst than local schools."' Stanford U study led by Margeret Raymond. Go Stanford University!
@alicia27free - To lump all charter schools in all states together is to lump together very dissimilar entities. To accept a single study as the Gospel while ignoring others with contradictory findings is to remain uninformed. Read up.
@alicia27free skewed study. it threw in charter schools that have only been in existence for less than a few years. hard to gauge the success or failure of a school when its only been around for a short while. Face it, the monopoly that exists today is destroying the next generation.
Yet inner city families continue to vote Democrat against their own interests. Democrat = Union Power = Weak Schools. We've had enough of the death grip that unions have had on our economy and our children's futures. Inner city schools receive the most funding, yet the children are the lowest performing. The entire public school system has held our kids hostage to their own selfish ends, particularly minority children, as just another form of segregation. Enough is enough.
This is definitely a story that needs to be told. I tried doing a similar documentary on the charter school Urban Prep in Chicago a couple of years back, but the fact that I wanted to explore perspectives of the Board of Ed, Teachers Union, The Englewood Community, as well as focus on 3 students, just didn't bode well with the school. It's a shame because 100% of their first graduating class all got accepted to college. Great ending. Good luck with this film. Can't wait to see it.
@yournamehere654 I really don't understand this reply. I don't think I blamed anything on anybody with my statement. I was only positive. Maybe you missed read this. I'll break it down for you. I'm saying it's a shame that I wasn't able to do the documentary because 100% of the students graduated and got accepted into colleges. This would have been a great ending to my documentary. anyway.
@yournamehere654 The way the current school system is set up all they want is to steal parents' hard earned dollars. But unlike a private sector transaction parents can't opt out of paying if the services received is worthless. You can't take that money and spend it with a better provider. Parents are forced to pay for the worthless service and if they want better to pay additional. So if they can't afford both you are going to blame parents.
Spot on buddy , these liberal wholes just want everything handed to them without working for it, damn you manipulated civil liberties, were too far gone, society can never be reigned back to normalcy.
hmmm only black kids
mikeohohoh7 1 month ago
sad this only has 54,000 views.
225yoda 5 months ago
Only 53,651 views! Please spread this trailer! It's urgent! Expose the masses before our future generation will not be able to read this sentence or duplicate a sentence for that matter!
iReasonII 5 months ago
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CDISupport 7 months ago
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this movie was awesome.
similik101 9 months ago
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is this the same movie as waiting for superman?
If you liberals ever pull your head out of your arse, reality is not utopia, WAKE up! Not everyone has an enlightened conscience like you. you cannot deprogram humanity , all these aholes complaining of failing schools should participate in making the school better rather than say " the system is broken". The schools are an extension of or communities.
uralusr 1 year ago
is this the same movie as waiting for superman?
uralusr 1 year ago
@uralusr no.
tecnokid 5 months ago
@Th3Individual prove it
bryanguy1 1 year ago
If it weren't for the "evil teachers' unions",
the "good, little children" would all go to the LIBRARY to STUDY and do their HOMEWORK!
They would also drink their milk and eat all their vegetables!
I'm still waiting for the T.V. reality show where Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, Davis Guggenheim, et al. attempt to teach Remedial Math at a junior high in the inner-city!
Ha!
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
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@MsJanetWood
If liberals ever pull your head out of your arse, reality is not utopia, WAKE up! Not everyone has an enlightened conscience like you. you cannot deprogram humanity , all these aholes complaining of failing schools should participate in making the school better rather than say " the system is broken". The schools are an extension of or communities.
uralusr 1 year ago
In foreign countries, there is no SOCIAL PROMOTION. If a student fails, he must repeat the entire year . . . AGAIN!
In America, it is literally impossible to "flunk" a student!
A teacher must attend a "special retention meeting", where she must present her case to a panel of experts.
Even, if the team agrees to retain the student, the parents can still veto their decision!
That is how you end up with junior high kids that don't know their time tables and read at a 2nd grade level!
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
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FICTIONAL CASE STUDY:
Little Billy said the f-word.
1950-private Catholic school: Sister Ann grabbed him by the ear, took him to the sink and washed his mouth out with soap. He never cursed in school again. Neither did any of his classmates.
2011-public school: A panel of experts deliberated for hours on strategies on how to help Billy's teacher with her classroom management. The team decides that the TEACHER needs more professional development!
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
I was looking for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, but I found this fiction instead.
ninjajesus81 1 year ago
Last Night Obama sided with the unions and teachers Democrats know how to Institutionalize slavery/ racism and they continue to benefit shame on them
bryanguy1 1 year ago
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Wonderful heartfelt movie. Superb acting throughout , well worth your time 4/5 . watch now at Free Movie Zone . n e t
rahmatrio94 1 year ago
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really good movie to just relax and enjoy the movie...8/10...watch it at Free Movie Zone . n e t
rahmatrio94 1 year ago
I am a high school junior from Phoenix who is angry because her math teacher hates teaching. I love math, and it's frustrating to know that some teachers (like my math teacher) hate their jobs however refuse to leave it because they enjoy the getting many days off. It's even more frustrating when our school does not fire the teacher for whatever reason despite extensive requests by good students. THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM.
Fuck public schools.
BitterSweetBleu 1 year ago 3
@BitterSweetBleu send me a message with the school name and the teachers name I bet I can change that real quick
bryanguy1 1 year ago
Buffalo, NY is the worst school system in the country.
ReviewCam 1 year ago
God bless the hard-working, dedicated, and BRAVE teachers who risk their lives daily in order to teach the children of the inner-city!
According to Uniform Crime Report statistics compiled by the FBI, there were 1,437.7 VIOLENT CRIMES per 100,000 people reported in the District of Columbia in 2008.
There were 5,104.6 property crimes per 100,000 reported during the same period.
VIOLENT CRIME was 3 times the national average of 454.5 reported offenses per 100,000 people in 2008.
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
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ToiletFinger 1 year ago
Why hasn't anyone interviewed Michelle Rhee's former students? Ask them what kind of teacher she was?
HBO documentary: "Hard Times at Douglass High."
Suggested Reading:
"Bad Students, Not Bad Schools” by Robert Weissberg
"The Dumbest Generation” by Mark Bauerlein
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
We as a nation need to decide who is more important: the teachers or the children they're supposed to be preparing for the future.
ScottTempleman 1 year ago 2
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Documentary: "Hard Times at Douglass High."
Books: "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools” by Robert Weissberg
"The Dumbest Generation” by Mark Bauerlein
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
Armchair quarterback?
I would like to see you attempt to teach a remedial math class at a junior high in Compton or Watts?
You wouldn’t last a week!
God bless the hard-working dedicated inner city teachers who risk their lives daily! Teaching the children of gang-members,drug-addicts, prostitutes, illegal immigrants, poverty-stricken families, etc. Many times, going beyond the call of duty to help those people!
Those teachers are the TRUE ROCK STARS!
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
The part in this movie where she talks to the head of the teacher's union is ENRAGING. They made their decision before they even showed up to the meeting.
Clearly there's money involved in this somewhere. There's no other reason for people to be so pigheaded and unreasonable. The U.S. is doomed. Plain and simple.
ChrisCapel1998 1 year ago
I just watch the movie and it moved me. We are living in a time where we spend more money on jails and prisons than we do on children's' education. It will take us as citizens to make the change and demand for better public school systems. How long can we wait for the next reform?
graceface103 1 year ago
@graceface103 Someone finally put racism aside and spoke the truth.
cursivedragon 1 year ago
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it must be good story at all. All I wanna do is recommend you towatch this good movie. you may find it at Free Movie Zone . n e t
gunomun88 1 year ago
I did not see the video before making my comment and still have not, but someone wrote he was in Africa, Africa is a continent ( Hope i wrote that correctly) and they have computers too. I'm almost certain there books and museums. ( nobody should called me ignorant because I'm stating fact) some people may not be able to pay out a lot of money etc, but they can work with in there budget.
MONIQUEIJ 1 year ago
they recently made another movie that seem similar to this one, it's called " waiting for superman." But I do feel families shouldn't have all of there hope into these lottery.
MONIQUEIJ 1 year ago
The kids that talk loud and laugh during the movie! The ones that throw popcorn at the screen! The ones that run up and down the movie aisles. The ones that keep getting up to go to the bathroom! Those kids!
Do you think those kids could sit down for a 45 minute Math Lesson?
They can't sit still during a movie! You think they are going to pay attention to their math teacher?
So, who do we blame? The teacher? The administrators? The parents? Or the kids?
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
Sounds like my school. The only way we could get in my high school was by the lottery..I got in because the day before it was time to go back o school, someone dropped out && my name was picked
its a good school..pretty hard work, but I love it.. I'm glad I got in :)
Angelbaby7041 1 year ago
@nwest2fly
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
Taxpayers would be appalled, if they knew the amount of money that goes to pay the exorbitant salaries of so-called administrators.
People with fancy titles by their name, but do NOTHING that benefits students.
(e.g. Curriculum Directors, Assessment Coordinators, Program Managers, Educational Consultants, etc!) People that have been out of the classroom in years, and are absolutely CLUELESS!
" . . . wined and dined by the big publishing companies."
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
@MsJanetWood I'm sorry you lost your job honey. It's very unfortunate however ya'll asses had to go.....so boo hoo hoo.
nwest2fly 1 year ago
@nwest2fly Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems. As a result, 6 million people lost their lives.
"Be wary of simple solutions to complex problems."
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
I wish their was a way to seperate the little black kids who have a chance and the ones who will be prison inmate #182762561. I guess at least those parents care enough to show up at those lotteries and want to give their kids an education, when so many ghetto families resemble the movie "Precious" whos kids have no chance.
bum4evr 1 year ago
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Would you BLAME the POLICE OFFICER working in a HIGH CRIME AREA?
Would you BLAME the DOCTOR working in a hospital with a lot of SICK people?
Would you BLAME the LAWYER working with a lot of CRIMINALS?
Would you BLAME the BORDER PATROL AGENTS for all the ILLEGAL ALIENS that are crossing the border?
Would you BLAME the SOCIAL WORKER with a lot of WELFARE CASES?
NO? Why not?
Because there are other FACTORS beyond their control! STOP BLAMING THE TEACHERS!
DO YOUR HOMEWORK!
MsJanetWood 1 year ago
The problem is a combination of the teacher unions that refuse to fire an incompetent teacher because they don't want to lose a due paying member as well as parents. You cannot tell me that when 7 out of 10 children in the black community are born out of wedlock, that this fact has no bearing on their academics. If you place a child, of any race, into a situation where their parents do their homework with them every night and read to them everyday, that child will be successful.
meast36 1 year ago 3
the only lottery for a black man is trying to rob a bank or a armored car to get a future.
Owndchilata 1 year ago
Parents need to step up and educate their children and in some cases themselves. I admit I need work but I am going to the library and taking online courses to help my child. I also had to pay for my college classes and get myself through high school. If you want something bad enough you find a way to get it. RESPONSIBILITY! It takes time. Make it! Your child is worth it! Watch 1 less tv show and teach your child something!
TheCarr122105 1 year ago 4
@TheCarr122105 I commend you for your efforts, but with the way its set up, its simply not good enough. People give the library all these magical powers. You can read every book in there, but if you lack the application and critical thinking, it doesn't matter. Teaching how to comprehend what you read is what matters, and 80% of all adults cant do that.
A kid from Beverly Hills can graduate with a 4.6 GPA, and go to the library less if not the same, and their parent dont do shit either.
Crillin112 1 year ago
I have worked in public schools in three states, including NYC.
This film is true.
DO NOT be intimidated by teacher's unions. If you are able to get your child into a charter school (especially in NYC) DO IT.
scorzi 1 year ago 3
Abolish the Federal Department of Education!!! It is a insult to the American people for such a bureaucratic organization to tell us how to teach our children. I don't care if its Bush or Obama. Put the power back in the hands of the parents!!!!
brad238899 1 year ago
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The1MillionDollars 1 year ago
The system is designed for Blacks, and Latinos to fail. The last thing they want is an educated man of color. The drugs, and guns in our community is not by coincidence neither...Its GENOCIDE. If we armed ourselves to protect ourself from this then we are trouble makers, terrorist, militants, communist. The white Tea Party has armed themselves but that is called civil rights. The revolution will not be televised..
YOLT1952 1 year ago
@YOLT1952 If you actually paid attention to the "true" tea party movement you would see that we are against the federal department of education and the federal reserve which are two things that continue to increase the gap between the poor and middle class from the rich. And anyone in the "city" is considered a trouble maker if they have a gun no matter what their color.
brad238899 1 year ago
@YOLT1952 and that is what the democrats have done to the minority communities...
naturecoast9 1 year ago
Notice how the nwo is always putting out the message of gambling, lottery, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and etc. This is nothing but mind manipulation that the 2nd semester is explaining in TADS. The explain is in the movie called "The Island" which I recommend everyone to see.
hstone39 1 year ago
@TellYourFolks You could accomplish a more equal distribution of funds by simply attaching the funding to the child. Let parents decide which school their child will attend and funding follows the child. This is sort of system is a huge success in Europe. College kids tuition assistance grants are attached to them and not the school location. By introducing choice school districts can also offer specialty schools that pick various areas of study. Abandon the one size fits all education.
libertyfizz 1 year ago
@TellYourFolks I'm trying to tell you that lack of money is not the problem. Not even a little. Public schools get tons of money - what they do with it is the problem. Teacher ineptitude and Union corruption is the problem. Besides Reason-TV, who are at the forefront of the school choice battle, check out a video called, "America's Culture of Blame" by Sonja Schmidt [stick with it, I promise it's related]. It's a great place to start. Don't form quick opinions, take my advice and look it up.
haypenny 1 year ago 2
@TellYourFolks Honey - that is the result! Don't you understand? Teacher's Unions get too much, while students get too little, and even the lowest performing schools keep requesting more funding and nothing ever improves. Funding is misappropriated - it has been for decades. School boards are corrupt. This is 2010 and we still have high school kids who cannot read, yet we keep throwing money at the problem, and teacher's pensions get more and more exorbitant. Please just watch Reason-TV.
haypenny 1 year ago
@TellYourFolks Evenly distributed money - to teacher's unions. That's the entirety of the problem dear. Students get nothing - teachers and administrators get everything, and produce little. Democrats have had a vise grip around the whole bureaucratic system for decades now - time to try something else, wouldn't you say? Don't take my word for it. Reason TV has done a great deal of research on this issue. Vote for Democrats more! hahaha! wow.
haypenny 1 year ago
Down with government schools and leftist pigs.
buddharocket 1 year ago 3
Get over yourselves...This is about kids...all kids and if this film brings light to the ones pushing for failure then I welcome it!
ChicanoLA 1 year ago
I know this film is about inner city schools, but we live in the suburbs and our schools have much of the same problems - violence, gangs, failure at competence in reading and math. Yet the teachers unions are always screaming for more money "for the kids". We've had our property taxes raised many times in the 12 years we've lived here. We can't afford private school, so we homeschool. We educate three kids for a fraction of what our school district spends on one kid per year.
miazagora 1 year ago
The teachers unions MUST take responsibility also. Charter schools work, school vouchers work, on-line schools work, what does not work is the clinging to the status quo. Disband the Dept. of Education and start creating what is best for each community at the state level. The future of our children depends on it.
irisojects 1 year ago 2
@jakefree24 Perhaps the fact that you insist on referring to them as monsters, and spreading your racism and hate is part of the reason they did not wish to "learn, behave or work." The other thing that "doesn't lie" is a school system that allows it students to be marginalized and subjected to a kind of racial arrogance that somehow makes it okay for students to be undertaught. Hate and intolerance have no place in the classroom.
whyette2008 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend--how do we know that this man is NOT doing those things that you listed? it's dangerous to make those kinds of assumptions when we only get a snapshot ...just like you said in your comment to @alicia27free. just saying.
therhouse 1 year ago
The man asks "What can I do?...I'm just waitin' fo' th' lotto." He can take responsibility for educating his own child(ren). He can take them to the library & museums, read to them at home, tour gov't buildings, visit hisorical areas of town, go to the park or other natural areas, teach the Constitution; request educational and creative supplies on Freecycle and similar free-gifting groups (accessed from library computers). He can let his children use the thousands of educational web sites...
FreecycleFriend 1 year ago 3
@FreecycleFriend Following up with what @therhouse said, it is also possible that he is unable to do many of those things. Perhaps he is working full-time or more, perhaps he lacks his own educational background to make those at-home educational decisions. It's also very possible that he IS doing some of those things.
whyette2008 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend
Libraries maybe. But have you been to a library in a lower income area. Not so pretty and clean. How does a parent educate their own child when they weren't educated themselves and are at a 1st grade level? I'm on Freecycle and everytime I give something to get something on Freecycle I have yet to get something I have WANTED and I'm not even asking for much.
You want that man to have his child on an educational website, when they probably don't have a computer.
jodyjack88 1 year ago 3
@FreecycleFriend Then fire all TEACHERS and paid all the parent who educates their childrens....BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
romeo2g 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend you are so right! But, unfortunately a lot of these parents aren't educated enough themselves to know these things! And because of that work endless hours trying to support their families, it's a vicious cycle, our educators are getting paid to do a job and frankly they NEED to step up!
Dawnina77 1 year ago
all the activities you mention should only be enhancements and not replacements. it is not up to parents to teach the constitution, how government works or history. would you go to a podiatrist for heart palpitations? no. you go where you expect to get the right information. though there are issues with how teachers are trained, it's still better to have students go to school where a teacher's job is to educate.
vejunejb 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend yeah, he and other parents can do all that, while the teachers get their lifetime medical and dental and the really bad (like abusive and perverted)tenured ones go to the district rubber rooms all day and recieve their full pay for no work. you are totally right; we should just do that.
icak9 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend Clearly you haven't watched the movie. He's a good man and he's doing the best he can for his son. You bashing him on YouTube isn't going to help his son Christian get into a better, SAFER school.
wohs145 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend Did you even see the movie?
DJAR1E 1 year ago
@DJAR1E No, he/she didn't see the movie. He/she saw a snipet of someone's life and assumed that the man wasn't doing what he needed to do for his child...like most arrogant people who just happened to be "proud" of being Americans...We need to tell other Americans who marvel in ridiculing people who they perceive to be different, to just shut the hell up & stop being proud of being "American." That is not what America should be about.
KrisinIndy 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend I think, perhaps, you need to see the film first before you make degrading comments. The man that you ridiculed is from the Ivory Coast, Africa, which is why he talks with an accent. The irony in you ridiculing him is that most AMERICANS couldn't locate on a map-the continent of Africa, nor the region is which this man derives. How do you know that he wasn't already doing what your prescription ordered? Your comment is most of what is wrong with America.
KrisinIndy 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend Oh yeahj, well how woill he get access to those websites if he doesnt have a computer? How is it that no one makes him aware of these websites?! A DECENT EDUCATION IS NOT A PRIVELEDGE IT IS A RIGHT AND WE ARE ROBBING CHILDRESN, SPECIFICALLY BLACK/LATINO CHILDREN OF THAT RIGHT!!
Bladestar7 1 year ago
@Bladestar7 Most families have at-least one internet device. and most libraries and schools have computers, that children can access after school or during school hours. Theirs no excuse unless he lives underneath a rocks, there are plenty of search engine. ( Google, Bing, yahoo, etc) which he can look up different educational things for his kids. Everyone can that wont to give there kids a better life. :)
MONIQUEIJ 1 year ago
@MONIQUEIJ The fact remains that we must improve our public schools to the level that our children deserve. If we want better teachers,we must give them better support/tools as wella s pay. The problem is not the children, or the teachers, it is the system that is in place.
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ajmustapha88 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend 15+ years old etc.... There are hundreds of thousands of adults/parents in this situation. Don't you think if it could be solved with a "quick jaunt to the library/museum" they would have done it already? The problem here is much bigger than that.
ajmustapha88 1 year ago
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@FreecycleFriend you must first take into account his level of resources and/or socioeconomic status. A visit to the library to you might mean "educational and creative supplies". But when taking into account his living situation of a residential area that is majority low income, there aren't as many resources because there IS no advocate there to demand for books that are
ajmustapha88 1 year ago
@FreecycleFriend You are ignorant man. Did you even watch the movie? The guy that says that ACTUALLY is teaching is kid at home. His kid is number one or number two in his class at the zone school. The kid is learning. It's about gaining the chance to an amazing education. PROFESSIONAL teachers who can make his son graduate college. Don't be too quick to judge.
tictacky13 1 year ago 6
@FreecycleFriend
obviously you have no idea what your talking about. If you actually saw the film that man is actually DOING ALL THOSE THINGS YOU ARE SAYING...but his kid HAS to go to a failing public school (you can only attend the school that belong to your zone) and his only choice out is if he wins the "lotto". None of those things you mentioned can replace actual real classroom education.
zbjordan23 1 year ago 11
@FreecycleFriend Dang son. You got told.
uioxk 1 year ago
Where is all the love for children when Charter schools refuse special needs students from entering the lottery? Where is the love for the children when Charter schools kick kids out with just 20 days left in the school year? Nice promo , but how about the truth. "More than 80% of charter schools perform at the the same or worst than local schools."' Stanford U study led by Margeret Raymond. Go Stanford University!
alicia27free 1 year ago
@alicia27free - To lump all charter schools in all states together is to lump together very dissimilar entities. To accept a single study as the Gospel while ignoring others with contradictory findings is to remain uninformed. Read up.
FreecycleFriend 1 year ago 2
@alicia27free skewed study. it threw in charter schools that have only been in existence for less than a few years. hard to gauge the success or failure of a school when its only been around for a short while. Face it, the monopoly that exists today is destroying the next generation.
Rosardo 1 year ago 2
The unions are the "enemy within" and "we the people" will deal with theses traitors accordingly
HangProgressives 1 year ago 2
The Detroit School System is not only THE worst in the United States, but the administration was stealing most of the funds intended for the kids.
It's an outrage!!!
DONGOE 1 year ago 14
Are you listening Detroit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONGOE 1 year ago
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Going to ignore the troll below. This looks like a great film! People need to see up close and personal what opposition to school choice means!
fortinbras47 1 year ago
Yet inner city families continue to vote Democrat against their own interests. Democrat = Union Power = Weak Schools. We've had enough of the death grip that unions have had on our economy and our children's futures. Inner city schools receive the most funding, yet the children are the lowest performing. The entire public school system has held our kids hostage to their own selfish ends, particularly minority children, as just another form of segregation. Enough is enough.
haypenny 1 year ago 2
The Irony , Dr dre a black man and P-Shorty, have a comedic movie to be released the same time , two lottery comey movies at the same time. har har.
yournamehere654 1 year ago
@yournamehere654
Dr dres comedy is called the lottery, great timing fellas, hahahahha
yournamehere654 1 year ago
This is definitely a story that needs to be told. I tried doing a similar documentary on the charter school Urban Prep in Chicago a couple of years back, but the fact that I wanted to explore perspectives of the Board of Ed, Teachers Union, The Englewood Community, as well as focus on 3 students, just didn't bode well with the school. It's a shame because 100% of their first graduating class all got accepted to college. Great ending. Good luck with this film. Can't wait to see it.
maxieP 1 year ago
@maxieP
Dont blame the schools or the "system", blame your community and non-participating parents. Dont crap out kids if you cant take care of them.
yournamehere654 1 year ago
@yournamehere654 I really don't understand this reply. I don't think I blamed anything on anybody with my statement. I was only positive. Maybe you missed read this. I'll break it down for you. I'm saying it's a shame that I wasn't able to do the documentary because 100% of the students graduated and got accepted into colleges. This would have been a great ending to my documentary. anyway.
maxieP 1 year ago
@yournamehere654 The way the current school system is set up all they want is to steal parents' hard earned dollars. But unlike a private sector transaction parents can't opt out of paying if the services received is worthless. You can't take that money and spend it with a better provider. Parents are forced to pay for the worthless service and if they want better to pay additional. So if they can't afford both you are going to blame parents.
libertyfizz 1 year ago
@yournamehere654
Spot on buddy , these liberal wholes just want everything handed to them without working for it, damn you manipulated civil liberties, were too far gone, society can never be reigned back to normalcy.
uralusr 4 months ago