Waiting For Superman Analysis

In 2010, Davis Guggenheim released one of the years most talked about documentaries, Waiting for Superman. His film was an eye opening, to many, look at the failings of the U.S. school system. The film follows five students across the U.S., who range in grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade, as they try and escape the public school system through a lottery for a chance admission to a charter school. Guggenheim lays the blame for the failing public education system at the feet of the various teachers unions, and makes a plea for the public in general to get involved in reforming the system. By analyzing Waiting for Superman through a sociological perspective, issues of inequality will be explained using the theoretical approach

An individual and the community they live in are both factors that impact individual's education. Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie is an essay published in the Los Angeles Times that describes the impact that reading had on his life and it shows that individuality triumphs community towards the goal to an education. He Named Me Malala is a movie dedicated to Malala Yousafzai's pursuit towards an education and it displays that an individual is responsible for their quest for an education. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol is a book that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races, the book showcases that individuals are solely responsible for their pursuit in an education. Individuals are the benefactors

Educational systems in America are impaired, and the very educators that are meant to teach are the one’s pulling it down. That is the apparent message that Davis Guggenheim attempts to convey in his documentary “Waiting for Superman”. He uses many strategies to get his message across. Some of these include cartoons, children, and those reformers that are attempting to pull the system out of the ditch that it has found its way into. He makes his point very well, and uses facts and figures correctly. He does leave out some of the opinions of the opposing views, but it does not take away from his point that the educational system in America is in need of repair.

When the word school is mentioned, often, we first think about students and teachers. These two groups roughly describe the educational system. This assignment will focus on teachers as stakeholders in public school districts.

In Waiting for Superman, David Guggenheim’s documentary about America's school systems, he asks a multitude of very important questions that many people have been asking for a while now. Such as the question of if our teachers are essential to the well performance of a school, how can we, the everyday people, resolve poor performance within the school systems with an oftentimes uncritical view of teachers? In addition to that it raises the question on whether bad schools only exist in slums or other places as well. It also brings up the question can children excel in school if they are brought up in poverty.

The documentary Waiting for Superman uses several rhetorical strategies and appeals in order to effectively get its purpose across to the audience. The purpose of the documentary is to persuade people that public schools must be changed drastically for the better. Which would ensure that a multitude of students, if not all students, would be given better chances to succeed in life at the correct and required academic levels. This message is efficaciously relayed to the audience, which is comprised of anyone who is part of the school system, whether that be parents, students, principals, superintendents, presidents, or anyone else who can and is willing to make an effective change to the school system. The message delivered in the film is very

Imagine being denied a basic education solely because your parents do not have a steady income, or being denied a basic education simply because you do not live in a place with access to a quality public school. For many, the lack of a satisfactory education is something that is not an issue, but one would be surprised to see how prevalent this problem actually is. The film, Waiting for Superman highlights the many issues that are indeed obvious when examining the United States’ education system. The film centers around failing schools in mainly urban areas where the problems seem to be the most abundant, but it does not deny the fact that these many problems do exist everywhere throughout the country. Director Davis Guggenheim generates, in the movie Waiting for Superman, the claim that our education system is failing, and highlights the idea that although there are some solutions that have shown effective there is still more that needs to be done. Guggenheim formulates his claim through his use of a shocking, sometimes sad tone as well as an effective narrative structure throughout the film.

After watching Waiting for Superman, I realize I haven’t given the schools I attended the credit they deserve when I have spoken of them before. I had no idea other schools in America could be failing worse than the elementary and high school I previously attended. Waiting for Superman gives a diverse view of how hard it is to actually get the free, public, education that every student is entitled to and deserving of. The documentary showcases five students along with their families trying to get into schools that guarantee them a better future. Because free, public, schools are failing the students by not giving them a proper education, these five students are left to look at private institutions with few spaces available.

Many people relationships influence childhood such as families and friends in the social world. The culture and society effects on childhood development. Sherman Alexie in “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” claim that the reading and having prior knowledge saved his life. He also learns that reading was his great talent while other kids could not read at their reading level. Bernard Cooper in “A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrance of a Gay Boyhood” claim that he thought his parents were abnormal. In the early stage, Copper trying to figure out how to go out with boys or girls by liking them. Alexie and Cooper discuss their childhood differrntly, but society has a greater impact on their lives.

As an American we have taken pride in our steady advancement and progression yet this generation have allowed technology to take the place of our desired expectations in life. In this socialization people tend to slack off into a world of illusion. This era of time from 2001 to the present time we should be named Generation Anti- Social Slacker. This generation is notorious for having no sense of direction we are easily distracted by unnecessary events and issues. Generation Anti- social Slackers lives in a fictitious world where we are allowed to create goals. As a member of the Anti- Social Slacker Generation our goals of achieving the American dream of fame and fortune are to idealistic and since we value

Setting a realistic tone to the film allows Guggenheim to showcase the actuality of the public schools and what is truly occurring inside the education system. For instance, Guggenheim contrasts the different sides of how some students are able to study in a private school with a compelling education system, while other students are forced into public schools due to poverty. He does so by stating, “But I am lucky. I have a choice. Other families pin their hopes to a bouncing ball,” (Waiting for “Superman”).

In Waiting for “Superman” a film produced by a man named David Guggenheim addresses the issues that arise in the public school system, and how hard it is for kids to get a good education in the U.S. As Guggenheim quotes “no matter who we are, our what neighborhood we grew up in wanting to believe in our schools, we take a leap of faith.” Waiting for “Superman” effectively identifies failing schools, incompetent teachers, and administrative constraints as the main issues under mining education in the U.S. today. First, Guggenheim reached his audience through its focus on the stories of five children and their families as they apply to their neighborhoods local charter schools. Each child’s parent places them in the charter schools lottery drawing to earn a place in the school.

In the story "Superman and Me" by Alexie, an Indian boy is determined to learn because he was inspired by his father. He looks forward to more education and he wants to be successful when he grows up. The boy is going to a school where he isn't accepted because he is not white. In the story "Graduation" by Maya Angelou, she goes to school where the white are considered higher class, were as the blacks were considered the lower class. Education is an important factor to becoming successful.

The story starts off with superman knocked out in space.Then Athena and Zeus are talking. Then it cuts to Shazam flying in to save Wonder Woman from Hercules,he flies in fast and takes him down, Hercules then gets up and proceeds to fight Shazam, and then Harley Quinn cheers for Shazam. As Wonder Woman starts to recover from being choked from Hercules, as soon as she gets up she is choked by Batwoman using wonder woman's laso. Catwoman begins to calm down Batwoman, Batwoman stops and says “You're not worth it” and then walks away.

Thirteenth Company’s production of Man and Superman was very enlightening. Don Juan speaks of hell being leisurely, and of it having no challenge. Don Juan would much rather be in heaven, so he can steer his life over the curves that is a challenging afterlife. Hell, is boring, and kind of perfect. The Statue has a different philosophy on heaven. The Statue wants to be in hell, because his craving to have a leisure after-life style. He wants everything to come to him with the snap of his fingers.