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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Janice on February 17, 2011, 10:54:56 AM

Title: Waiting For Superman
Post by: Janice on February 17, 2011, 10:54:56 AM

(http://i52.tinypic.com/ina0wk.jpg)

Waiting for 'Superman' is finally out.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.

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The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.

IMDb review 7.3/10 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/)

This movie apparently goes after the AFT and NEA with a vengeance. Read the review from the link above. Im downloading now.

 :popcorn:

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: thundley4 on February 17, 2011, 11:12:12 AM

The DUmmies really hate this movie.

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: FreeBorn on February 17, 2011, 01:21:16 PM

Quote from: thundley4 on February 17, 2011, 11:12:12 AM

The DUmmies really hate this movie.

Truth is such a bite in the ass.

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: Janice on February 17, 2011, 02:05:56 PM

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg[/youtube]

So getting a decent education is like winning the lottery in America?

 :popcorn:

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: NHSparky on February 18, 2011, 08:57:27 AM

Saw this movie on the plane coming home.  Talk about kicking the union in the nuts.

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: Janice on February 18, 2011, 09:43:25 PM

Ive watched about half of this thing ... pretty good.  :popcorn:

Too late to watch it all tonight though.

Title: Re: Waiting For Superman
Post by: Chris_ on February 18, 2011, 09:45:30 PM

I spotted it in the Redbox at the grocery store.  I may pick it up later.