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WAITING FOR "SUPERMAN" (PG) Ten years
after Davis Guggenheim followed several
first-year teachers in his documentary debut,
1999's The First Year, the Oscar winner for
An Inconvenient Truth wondered what had
happened to our nation's public schools to
force him to send his and his wife's (actress
Elisabeth Shue) children to private school. In
Waiting for "Superman," he seeks the answer
by following students rather than teachers.
Audiences meet
Anthony in America's
educational black
hole: Washington, BRHISkrB^i
D.C.; Daisy, dreaming
of being a veterinar-
ian in one of L.A.'s
little Francisco strug-
gling in the Bronx;
Catholic schoolgirl
Bianca in Harlem;
and white, affluent Emily in Silicon Valley. All
of them dream of attending a charter school;
one in five of which is no more successful
than a public school, the film mumbles.
In Waiting for “Superman," Guggenheim,
cowriter Billy Kimball and producer Lesley
Chilcott outline simple solutions to solve this
devastatingly important problem: Have higher
standards. Be more rigorous. Most importantly,
hire better teachers and fire incompetent
ones. They conclude that the educational sys
tem will remain broken as long as evil teach
ers' unions protect substandard teachers.
Guggenheim did not fashion his account
of the crumbling public education system
for educators, to whom he provides no new
knowledge or perspective. Even non-teachers
who frequently read the comments left on
OnlineAthens' education articles will be famil
iar with these pedestrian claims and conclu
sions. Anyone else should leave as shocked,
appalled and disappointed as the filmmaker
desires, as his skill for making crowd-stirring,
audience-friendly,
E partisan documenta-
ffc, ries is second only to
% i Michael Moore. Alex
Gibney and Charles
Ferguson are intel-
'4 lectually superior,
but they don't know
" bow to work a main-
stream crowd's emo-
Uh tions like Moore or
Guggenheim.
Guggenheim's central point is right.
Schools must change. I'm just not as confident
as he that the means to ensure that every
child receives the "great American education"
has been discovered by charter pioneers like
Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee and the found
ers of KIPP, nor that it can be generalized to
our audacious, ambitious, admirable system
that aims to educate everyone in a country of
over 300 million despite their backgrounds,
socioeconomic status or personal challenges.
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