Waiting For Superman Rhetorical Analysis

Out of the movies uploaded on bolt, I decided to watch Waiting for Superman. When the movie started I was skeptical on it at first. The movie is about the struggle America is facing with education, as well as how it is failing the children. At one time America was one of the top smartest countries in the world. But around the time of the space race, America start seeing how the decline in education. Fast forward to today, American is still struggling to improve its education system. Many Chancellors of Education have come and gone, promising to change the way our education system is set up. The documentary pointed out that one possible reason our education system is the way it is, is because the federal government distributes money and sets guidelines to the school. But not only that, states send funds to the schools and have their own set guidelines, then the schools within themselves have guidelines they want to see. In simpler terms one reason our education system is like this, is because there are too many cooks in
In 2002 President Bush and democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy supported the reform bill Np child Left Behind Act. This act created higher standard and goals for schools in order to improve the education system across all the states. There are four main pillars, the first are results, the scores are broken down by demographics and then it is determined if the school is needed to add more programs in order to better the scores. If no improvement is made then the school will have to reorganize. The second is that the funds are more flexible when it comes to spending. The third pillar is government created programs like, “Reading First”. the last pillar is the ability for student’s parents to change their child’s school because the scores are not being met, without extra charge on the school or the