Analysis Of Waiting For Superman

The Future of Education The public school system in America is not meeting American officials’ standard or the levels they want. They are not providing proficient knowledge to the students to get them to the next grade. Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, which looks into the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public education system throughout the years. Through the eyes of five children who go through regular public education and everyday pressures, Guggenheim presents the different and difficult options that have hope to change the American education system and the repercussions of it. The American education system is broken because the
No one in this country seems to be looking out for the students well being and future. Randi Weingarten, an American labor leader, and the current president of the American Federation of Teachers, which has more than a million and a half members, was portrayed as the villain in the film. She gained her fame and publicity on speaking out for the benefit of teacher. She is known to resists innovation, tolerates decline, and worst of all she protects lousy teachers at the expense of innocent schoolchildren. If this kind of publicity was given towards the students our school system would not need these teachers unions she is forming. If a teacher’s duty is to help a child learn, they should not be finding ways to benefit themselves. They took this role to secure a better future for their students and if they did their job like they are supposed to they would not have to worry about making sure their job is
Instead of the state paying for a better public school system, they are now paying even more money to keep their inmates confined. It cost thousands of more dollars to house a prisoner in prison for a year than to send a child to school from kindergarden to their senior year in high school. If the states invested in good teachers with qualifications that meet high standards, prisons would not be so crowded. Teachers are what make a school succeed or fail. Without good teachers; students understand little, to no knowledge being presented to them in class causing them to drop out. Shown in this documentary, schools make it impossible to fire a bad teacher for anything short of a criminal act or the teacher qualifies for tenure, which mean that a teacher is ensured their job for life and cannot be terminated. These awful teachers are known as “lemons” and in order for the schools to get rid of them they perform what is called the “lemon dance” with other school, which involves schools swapping their worst-performing teachers at the end of the year in hoping that their lemon isn’t as bad as another school’s lemon. Teachers are broadcasted as heroes, someone that people admire and look up to and is willing to do what ever it takes to make their students succeed in the future. In high school, during my senior year, I had a marine biology teacher, who was presented to teach the class the summer before the next