Analysis Of Waiting For Superman
The documentary, Waiting for Superman, is a look at the problems with America’s public school system. After watching to film I was shocked and frustrated. It is difficult for me to imagine that people who have chosen to become teachers would ever refuse to reform a system that is not functioning in the best interest of the children for whom the system was developed to serve. I am a very direct thinking person, when a problem is explained to me I immediately think about solutions. This film not only clearly explained the problem but also the solution. I find it extremely frustrating that the problem and solution have been identified, since at least 2010 when this film was released, and yet still the issues with our public school system
remain. The success that the KIPP charter schools are having compared to local public schools is mind boggling. I cannot imagine being a teacher at a “dropout factory”, and knowing that a neighboring school is experiencing greater success. Of course I would want to know why and what my school needs to do to experience the same success. Geoffrey Canada's school model is doing what no one believed was possible with minority students, and yet school in these types of communities are either nonexistent or students are randomly selected for enrollment. This is the saddest and most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. It has been six years since the film’s release and more than twenty years since some of these schools have changed the way to educate and yet the problems in mainstream public schools remain. Teachers should have job security, but not at the expense of our youth. The public school system was designed to educate children and produce adults who would be ready to go to work or to college. Teachers need to have some protection so that they are not taken advantage of but it should never come at the expense of educating students. If someone is incapable of or terrible at teaching they should not be a teacher. The teacher’s union should want to remove bad teachers just as much as anyone else. These bad teachers are having a negative impact on not only their students but on the entire teaching profession
remain. The success that the KIPP charter schools are having compared to local public schools is mind boggling. I cannot imagine being a teacher at a “dropout factory”, and knowing that a neighboring school is experiencing greater success. Of course I would want to know why and what my school needs to do to experience the same success. Geoffrey Canada's school model is doing what no one believed was possible with minority students, and yet school in these types of communities are either nonexistent or students are randomly selected for enrollment. This is the saddest and most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. It has been six years since the film’s release and more than twenty years since some of these schools have changed the way to educate and yet the problems in mainstream public schools remain. Teachers should have job security, but not at the expense of our youth. The public school system was designed to educate children and produce adults who would be ready to go to work or to college. Teachers need to have some protection so that they are not taken advantage of but it should never come at the expense of educating students. If someone is incapable of or terrible at teaching they should not be a teacher. The teacher’s union should want to remove bad teachers just as much as anyone else. These bad teachers are having a negative impact on not only their students but on the entire teaching profession