Waiting for Superman Official Trailer

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Release Date: 2010
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.

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[devilboost1]

wheres superman?



[juicydonut]

Is China so good at math thats its not even listed on the rankings lol...

[Matteo323]

it's not that our schools are failing them, it's that our parents are failing them. kids should be able to read and write before they enter kindergarten. this is why kids in the US start behind kids everywhere else in the world.

[drummerboy4229]

Anti-education propaganda. Maybe our statistics look shitty because we let all students even special education kids go to school and take part in our standardized tests. Don't frame the teachers for internal problems when there are many other answers for the U.S. education systems international rankings. Do you think Finland has inner-city gang ridden schools like the U.S.? Do you think China lets all students attend schools and be a portion of the statistics.

[eranaldi9]

@amandaporteus112986 Could not have said it better myself.

[amzinasain]

@juicydonut sigh.. They are not a developed country lol...

[lifeInAFallenWorld22]

@devilboost1 don't you know that superman is dead??? check out Our Lady Peace's Superman's Dead video!!!

[melisse1123]

I saw this documentary and "Hell and Back Again" for free at Florida State University. I love going to FSU! bitly .com/zJDaIj

[MrKeso100]

thats my school wen the kids are running for real

[NeluThat70sKid]

Plus, he also has his parents (my sister and her husband) who are VERY involved in their school's PTA. So, needless to say, he has gotten nothing but straight A's =-) And I am by no means flaunting it, much less try to rub it in anybody's face, the important thing here is public schools, even though they can still remain non-demonationational, can learn some valuable lessons their parochial school counterparts if they SERIOUSLY care about the future and overall well-being of our nation's kids.

[NeluThat70sKid]

GREAT DOC, WELLWORTH WATCHING. However, while it does a pretty darn good uncanny job exposing the US education system for what it is, it does tend to overlook parochial schools and why they're consistently better. I have a 6-y.o. nephew attending Catholic school in the 1st grade, but, as part of their curriculum, he and all the kids in his grade are learning 2nd grade material at a 2nd grade level, sort of like catching up a year in advance than their public school counterparts.

[kawaguchie]

Best quote from the film:

"There is this unbelievable willingness to turn a blind eye to the injustices that are happening to kids every single day in our schools in the name of harmony amongst adults." -Michelle Rhee