Waiting for Superman

Movie: Waiting for Superman

Genre: Documentary

I saw it on: October 24, 2010

Synopsis: A really thought-provoking documentary that examines that state of education in America.  There is a lot of finger pointing and a lot of ideas on how to fix the mess.

My two cents: The movie does a great job of getting things stirred up and showing failures in the system.  I think a lot of the solutions they show were a little misleading in that they did not clearly show that funding for most of these alternatives are coming from non-public sources.  I feel that any long-term solution needs to be able to exist within the public funding world.

Having two teachers in the family, I am sympathetic to the teachers.  However, I think the three biggest obstacles to fixing the system are (1) more money is needed, (2) teacher’s unions need to be reigned in, and (3) the whole idea of tenure needs to be revamped.  But that’s just my two cents.

I think that everyone should see this movie – but should also read some of the rebuttals that are floating around.