Waiting For Superman | Davis Guggenheim talks US (2010)

featurette "Waiting For Superman" - Davis Guggenheim talks about the movie
Genre: documentary
Regie / directed by: Davis Guggenheim (It Might Get Loud, Gracie, Gossip)

Kinostart Deutschland: 2010
Kinostart USA: 2010
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SYNOPSIS (provided by Paramount Pictures)
For a nation that proudly declared it would leave no child behind, America continues to do so at alarming rates. Despite increased spending and politicians promises, our buckling public-education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying drop-out factories and academic sinkholes, methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.

However, embracing the belief that good teachers make good schools, and ultimately questioning the role of unions in maintaining the status quo, Guggenheim offers hope by exploring innovative approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools that have—in reshaping the culture—refused to leave their students behind.

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[nitchobass]

Davis is not blaming teachers, pay attention to it.

He is talking about bad education politcs.

Teachers are only pieces of this broken machine.

I live in Brazil, and I can tell you about a lame education system.

[cohen11731]

@monkeydanny123

It's not about quantity it's about quality. Making the school day longer isn't the answer. I'm a teacher in New Zealand. Our world ranking in literacy and numeracy is high because we have a quality education system and effective teaching practices. And our students are only in school from 9-3.

[MsJanetWood]

Do you think a POLICE OFFICER working in Oakland, Compton, Watts, or East L.A. has the SAME LEVEL of STRESS and PRESSURE, as cop in Beverly Hills?

Do you think WALKING along RODEO DRIVE is EQUAL to WALKING ALONG 54TH AND CRENSHAW?

A policeman friend of mine went to his wife's Back-to-School-Night. Imagine his surprise when he realized he had PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED half of the parents in attendance.

Stop blaming the teachers! Blame the loud, rude, disruptive students and their parents.

[USASecretHistory]

@GoDrex That's true. He starts out with answer before actually investigating. The film actually does make some good points. But overall in hindsight it is an embarrassment. Former Superintendent Rhee's tenure has now proven to have been a fraud. The cheating scandals during her tehure now call into question the current craze for improving test scores. These people don't have any clue about what education actually means.

[rchinawoman]

Many TEACHERS give students excellent education while in SCHOOL. It is the PARENTS responsibility to REINFORCE education at HOME. Don't put all the burden on the teachers' shoulders. Some parents pass the blame on the teachers to cover their own irresponsibility on this matter.

[DvineGaming]

@nitchobass The bad teachers are a big part of it though.

[Fatima74]

You are clearly serving the interests of the wealthy elites who plan to exploit education by privatizing it. How much did they put in your pockets btw?

[Fatima74]

You are a self serving, greedy, dishonest manipulator of facts Mr. Guggenheim. If you really cared about the kids' future you would have challenged the unjust socio-economic system of exploitation that is robbing the people while making the rich more wealthy.

[brifrye]

@MondoBeno i'm with mpardueable. your story about the rare kid who escaped poverty missed the point. some parents are great, because they have the knowledge and the means to be great. for all those families who don't have the knowledge or the means to support their children, which is the majority in poor neighborhoods, there needs to be less blame. poverty isn't an excuse, it is a symptom. don't compare todays education system to your education from the 1950s because its a whole new ballgame

[MondoBeno]

@mpardueable My ancestors (and probably yours as well) grew up in poverty and went to underfunded schools. But the parents believed in education, and that's why my family succeeded while others didn't.

I had a student who was raised by his grandmother in dire poverty, yet he just graduated from Penn State. Back in 2003, I asked her what her "secret" was, and she said "I never let him near the TV until his HW is done!"

I don't want to hear anyone use poverty as an excuse.

[mpardueable]

@MondoBeno So, the failing education system is because the majority of American parents are bad parents? That is a lame response. It's not all about teachers, but do you even realize that most public schools are funded by property tax? which means poor kids go to understaffed, poor, overcrowded schools with lack of resources. When I hear people saying it's the parents fault, I know automatically they are wealthy and have no clue about the real world. you are living in a bubble. Wake up.