Waiting For Superman

Waiting for Superman, shows how American schooling is failing as a whole. All through the film, the director and co-writer, has been following the educational ambitions of five children, four of whom are enrolled in public school and one in a parochial school the youngest in kindergarten, the oldest in the eighth grade in urban areas across the country.. Most of them messed up at school or had to drop out to get a job, and now they are determined to see their kids stick it through. “Nakia, a single mother in Harlem who has taken pay cuts in her job as a receptionist, says of her daughter, a six-year-old named Bianca, “I don’t care what I have to do. I don’t care how many jobs I have to obtain. But she will go to college.” “As Nakia and the other parents see it, getting their kids into college depends on first getting them into a charter school,” Stated by ABC news.

I felt like this film was a real eye opener to those who are educators and future educators, because a lot of people are clueless to what is really going on in the world. My parents did not tell me anything, all I knew was that I was getting a good education. Personality I can see the rate of learning dropping. Kids are dropping out at an earlier age and/or start doing drugs. I agree, something must and needs to be done. Education of our young ones cannot just go to waste.