So I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with the documentary titled "Waiting for Superman" but it came out this past fall in select theatres and I really wanted to see it! It wasn't playing anthwere in the area but it just came out on DVD and I've finally been able to watch it. AMAZING EYE OPENER!!!
To quickly summarize it gives a lot of facts and statistics about American Public Schools and their studnets, and to put it lightly how we are failing them... We as a developed nation are one of the lowest performing, but highest in confidence... Something to think about considering if you were to ask many students and educators where we fall among the ranking in education throught the owrld they would tell you that we are number one. Unfortunately, we are far from it.
The documentary explains why we aren't successful as successful as we need to be, how we can become more successful, and what is holding us back from doing so given we ahve the information we need to achieve at hand. This DVD has got me thinking so much I can hardly sleep and I've just got to share it with someone, who better than a group of aspiring educators? If you get the opportunity to watchi it, even if it means buying it, I promise it's worth it and it could very possibly change your thinking on our current education system.
I really wanted to see it as well. Do you have the DVD? If you do, can I borrow it?
ReplyDeleteDo you know where I can find this DVD? I think it would be really great to see, and I have some old high school teachers I know might like to show it in a class or two.
ReplyDeleteUm, my mom got it for me a couple weeks ago, and I want to say she got it at Target, but I would need to check with her and get back to you.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes Elias, you are more than welcome to borrow it.
I also want to watch it! By the sounds of it, it seems like this would be a great video to watch in one of our education classes here at Eastern. Especially since we are going to be educators one day and should know what is wrong with our educational system so we can fix it in any way possible!
ReplyDeleteI saw commercials about this documentary on TV and definitely thought that it would be something worth watching. So now I will definitely have to find it and watch it.
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