Critique of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary _Waiting for Superman_

In Davis Guggenheim's documentary "Waiting for Superman," he suggested unilateral discussions mainly for teachers' unions, pointed out that unions are "threats and obstacles to reform". His documentary explores the tragic ways in which the public education system in the United States interferes with the citizens' children and explores the role that charter schools and educational reformers can play in providing hope for the future. According to the statistics, our country dropout rate, scientific performance, math score, and school closures are decreasing, but the figures are the names of children being threatened by not being able to make changes And does not represent a face.

This is a "Superman" waiting for Davis Guggenheim, articles from journalists, educators, school administrators and activists who oppose documentaries accusing teachers' unions faced public schools and articles It is a collection of media clips. Establish and establish issues for privatization. The answer is school. The documentary claims that teacher union protects incompetent teachers and controls educational innovation. However, the documentary believes that private charter schools can freely perform necessary reforms to save the American education system.

In his 2010 film documentary "Waiting for Superman", Davis Guggenheim tells stories about the obstacles he has with five families and the obstacles they must pass to ensure their child. did. Accept the best (public) education at their proficiency level. While all five children from the documentary family come from different backgrounds, cities, provinces and economic pillars, Guggenheim suggests that the audience will know how five children are affected by the smallest ripple effect of our public education system Indicates whether it will be affected.

Davis Guggenheim has responsibility for personal education. In 1999, he produced a documentary ("first year") to celebrate a group of enthusiastic young public school teachers in Los Angeles. But at the beginning of "waiting for Superman", he went through three Los Angeles public schools and placed his children in an expensive private school. The story's Guggenheim aims to quickly stimulate the middle-class American audience of possible movies. Like him, they have sufficient resources for children to get a good education They go through the public school system's failure with a sad sigh as if nothing can be done. This is a fair condemnation, but I do not know if Guggenheim has fully considered these options.