The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman Re-edit

A condensed version from the first 30 minutes of the film: The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman.

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• public
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• teachers
• unions
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• superman
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[BosPercussion]

We don't have the money to provide the smallest class size as the author argues. We also can't have a fully experienced teacher workforce without some teachers as the bottom beginning their experience. What is the author's solution to this? The only argument they make is that the WfS solution doesn't work.

[BosPercussion]

If testing doesn't measure teaching and learning, please come up with another measure. What this activist is arguing is a principle of letting teachers teach. We have seen that drastically fail on a wide scale. Now we are in the age of standardized curriculum and testing. If you have a better alternative, please propose it Addressing the problem without solutions thinking rarely amounts to progress.

[j3cruz1]

There are some interesting points here, but most are unsupported claims and illogical arguments. The strongest point is that many charter schools might not be serving the same population than the public schools to which they're being compared. The other strong point is that not all charter schools are better than public schools. But none of this addresses teacher quality. The rest is sensational (e.g. out of context Arne Duncan clip about Katrina) and poorly argued.

[jaholt18]

This video pissed me off immediately with the following lie: "The corporate reformers believe that charter schools are the magic silver bullets.." That's not what is said in WFS at all. What WFS does is point out how charter schools provide competition and accountability with public schools. And how teacher's unions, like any union, prioritizes the employment of its members above anything else. Its freaking common sense that could lead to defending people who should not be teachers. Period.

[akspartan92]

@Kapitainleutnant I'm just another American that can observe the world around me and come to conclusions based off of those observations. So when I notice that every other career has to adhere to the capitalistic principles that our country has, yet the teaching profession doesn't, it pisses me off. I personally grew up in a very good school district statistically, and it was still awful. I totally support teachers, just not a teachers union that cares more about themselves than the kids.

[Kapitainleutnant]

@akspartan92 So now YOU are dancing from Rhee vid to Rhee vid posting your vitriol? Who are you? You obviously know nothing about either teachers or unions.

[akspartan92]

I wish this video would actually show their sources instead of showing a graph that you could have made yourself in 5 minutes. I'm tired of this.  I've been watching these videos on Youtube all day and all I see is everyone that's a teacher spewing nonsense that is basically communism for their own profession vs. every other person who doesn't get automatic job security for basically breathing for 2 years then doing nothing the rest of their life. The teachers union is killing this country.

[druidic6]

If the teachers want to prove that the film "Waiting for Superman" was wrong in its conclusions, then why don't they drop their union and Tenure protection and actually PROVE it?

[cowlover110]

Michelle Rhee. "Operated with a dictatorial style while pushing simple-minded reforms of carrots and sticks such as merit pay and firing educators based on faulty test data."

Seriously... Does nobody else notice the bias in every single sentence of this mockumentary?

[Floodlezoot]

the road to hell is paved with good intentions. it would be easier to just say, the dumb will fail in this cruel world. there is nothing we can do to help them. only the truly brilliant will escape from that bucket by going to the library and educating themselves.