Waiting For Superman Review
Waiting For Superman Review – “Waiting for Superman” is an interesting documentary that should change your views on the educational system in America. The movie argues that every child should be granted the chance to have a solid public school education; something that many children are denied as they grow up. The movie argues that a good education for the children will be vital toward our future of the nation, and it is something that we too often neglect for issues that only benefit the adult population.
It is clear that the educational system is flawed as this point, but it is truly up to the taxpayers to make a difference. Fixing the situation starts with making the rights choices as a registered voter.
The film argues that one of the first directions that needs to be taken is to reform the intractability and political power of all of the teachers unions across the United States. These unions protect teachers who are unable to teach the material, and teachers whose students finish with subpar marks.
A number of people are interviewed including upset teachers and parents who have had a hard time making any changes to their child’s educational future. The film also hopes to inspire talented, strong individuals to become teachers. In a public school system that has had a hard time adjusting with the times, perhaps you could make a difference and be the Superman that the kids have been waiting for.
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I have not seen the movie,but I was a public school teacher in the inner city of Minneapolis for 27 years. I know that it is not a simple answer to just blame the teachers and the teacher’s union. I want to know why someone has not looked into the publishing companies and the testing companies as they are making a mint off the schools and literally run the curriculum and what the teachers teach. Teachers have to spend valuable time teaching kids on how to take a test rather than the subject. Math publishing companies are promoting curriculum that is outdated. Most other countries teach to mastery and pick 4 concepts to master in a year. Here in this country they have teachers teacher numerous concepts in year and only review them every year.
Tests often do not test what they think they are testing. I wish someone would check into these two institutions.
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I have not seen the movie,but I was a public school teacher in the inner city of Minneapolis for 27 years. I know that it is not a simple answer to just blame the teachers and the teacher’s union. I want to know why someone has not looked into the publishing companies and the testing companies as they are making a mint off the schools and literally run the curriculum and what the teachers teach. Teachers have to spend valuable time teaching kids on how to take a test rather than the subject. Math publishing companies are promoting curriculum that is outdated. Most other countries teach to mastery and pick 4 concepts to master in a year. Here in this country they have teachers teacher numerous concepts in year and only review them every year.
Tests often do not test what they think they are testing. I wish someone would check into these two institutions.
I haven’t seen the movie and I don’t plan on seeing it. When I work so hard each year to impart my knowledge and love of learning to my students. As we all know, throughout the nation, school funding has really taken a dive. So, teachers are diving deeper into their pockets in an ailing economy, in order to have the necessities to teach. Some tax payers are paying for their child’s education twice. They are of course taxed in order to fund local schools. In many recent years our school has also asked parents to donate such items as xerox paper, pencils, markers, lined paper, glue sticks, tissue, paper towels, hand sanitizer etc.
Inner city schools are a far cry from the school that I work in and have worked in for the past 25 years. Inner city schools are ailing for many reasons. Yet, thinks about how many schools are NOT inner city. Our school is a bit of an exception in that it is a small, rural, one-school district. We’ve had to lay off teachers yet class sizes have expanded. We have more combination classes than ever, yet we still have the challenge of teaching the standards to 2 grades in one year. If I had the ability, I would make a documentary on the good that so many schools are doing. There are many public schools that are performing very well, and sending students on to such prestigious colleges and Annapolis, and Yale. We have a K-8 school that in the last 5 years has done this. We face many challenges, yet we keep on teaching to the best of our ability with less staff and we are still producing outstanding students! As I said…I have not seen the movie, yet I do have an inkling of its content. Superman needs to help inner city schools. Brave are the teachers who even attempt to work in an inner city school! With a poor tax base how are they to succeed? It would be nice to see more philanthropic efforts go into public schooling. I would also like to extend invitations to critics to come and visit our school and to see all the wonderful things going on.
Why don’t you watch the movie and not take the message so personally. If your a good teacher, that’s great. We need more good teachers. Why are teachers so adverse to demand that bad teachers be removed. Not every teacher is a great educator. Too many in the teachers union will not admit that there are any bad teachers. The film points out that there are a lot of great teachers. But the teachers unions take the position that no teacher is bad enough to be removed from their job. Only 1 in 3,000 teachers are terminated from their profession, compared to other professions where 1 in 25 or 1 in 50 are terminate.