Waiting for superman
A film that every educator should watch, the public school system in the U.S. is incomplete, entire generations will be lost. Children are being removed from life chances, getting vulnerable school education. However; the documentary shows that the profits to change the terrible results of the public schools are simple: higher workload, more classrooms for students, more motivated teachers. On the other hand despite being simple, educators in general have to fight for the system.
Intelligences inhibited by promising system for education surrounded by stats, where the numerical series of methodical grouping will result in limited probabilities indicated in the extraction of luck. Documentaries do not usually arrest me in the way that this arrested. Documentaries often leave me dizzy with so much information, explanations and graphics thrown, however; Waiting For Superman presents the decadent American educational paradigm where leftover ego, self-confidence and lack seriousness and interest (both students and teachers) commitment to those poor effective results. As the guy in the documentary said “there is not a bad neighborhood that leaves a bad school but a bad school that leaves a bad neighborhood”.
The documentary caught my attention because of the name: waiting for superman. I was intrigued to see the film when it started I thought was a kind of joke since I had heard many stories about how schools in the United States are good but I was surprised to learn the reality of public schools in here, not that the education in another countries is perfect but I expected more about the U.S since it is a developed country. However, it seems that the country is more worried about the “wars” than with the education of their future. This documentary brought an unstressed reality that was unknown to me. One of the best messages I took form the documentary was that the main goal of education is to create people who can innovate: beings