(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
I had a chance to see a screening of Waiting for Superman yesterday hosted by Expect More Arizona. It was extremely well done, and very moving. When it is released in the theatres in September, I plan to march everyone I can drag to the theatre.
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These are the same folks who produced Al Gore’s, “An inconvenient Truth”. Can you really believe anything they have in there?
Does the movie include a dramatization of the time when Michelle Rhee put tape on her African American students’ mouths and how their lips bled when she took the tape off?
JBV- yes, it produced by the same organization that made Inconvient Truth. Whatever one thinks of the Gore movie, the factual information in this film are from unimpeachable sources.
Despite all of the criticism about this movie that stems from people making it an argument about charter schools vs public schools, personal disagreements with those starred in the film, etc., we know kids WANT to get more out of their primary education. The biggest message this movie seems to send is that children and parents are dying to be admitted to great schools. Simply because there aren’t enough of them around. This shouldn’t be a fight about charter schools or public schools, or personal feelings about education figureheads, it’s about making sure that millions of kids don’t have to go without the education they want and need to succeed.
Watch this video to see what kids say after watching the film.
http://www.getschooled.com/young-people-react-to-waiting-for-superman
By trying to keep things “fair” or “PC”, people are not looking at who the American education system is supposed to serve: the children. As Tom put it, it is the millions of adults who DO put kids first that are making sure we’re closing the gap and preparing our students and our nation for the future.
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