Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning; "failure factories" likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. And despite decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the problem, our public schools haven't improved markedly since the 1970s. Davis Guggenheim gives us and in site on the crisis of public education in the United States. The story is told through multiple interlocking stories; "from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system."
Waiting for Superman brought me to tears! I grew up in a home where my future was almost planed out for me. My parents put in the best schools, my mom would read to be every night, we moved when I got into high school so I could go to a better school. So I never really thought about other families and how some people can’t move around to find better schools. They have to do the best with what they have! Now that I am older and more open minded I learn from other people. I see that I was really blessed! When watching Waiting for Superman my heart felt so much pain and sadness for those kids and their families, No one deserves to not be offered the best education. I can’t even put into words the emotions I felt when watching this. How would you feel if your only (main) chance of making it in life was based on luck! or you where told
your school was a failure factorie. And then the thought that you cant fire bad teachers because of something called "ten-year" that really needs to change. I do belive this documentary was a little one sided. If fixing education was as easy as the film made it seem i am sure it would have been fixed; some charter schools work and others don't.
After watching this documentary, I decide to change my major. I was health and physical education major but now I plan to be an early child hood major. I may not have the tools or education right now to be the best teacher but, I care and I know when I put my mind to something I can do it. Even if I can’t change the Education system I KNOW I’ll change some child’s life.
Given the rapidly changing demographics in our state and country this course is designed to equip future teachers with the fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds.(EDUC-2120-02 Fall11 Syllabus)
