This sounds very interesting... A self proclaimed leftist liberal reporting on the challenges with the Teacher's Unions... (ie not necessarily the Teachers...) Besides, the portion of the trailer regarding the confidence of American kids is hilarious and so true...
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Thanks John for posting on this. I just looked and the documentary is coming to Minneapolis starting Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 at the Uptown Theater (See link http://www.fandango.com/waitingforsuperman_133889/movietimes?location=55428&date=10/1/2010 ) I hope that many people will go and see this film. I know I will go next week.
I'll be going.
Sadly, this will cause a minor flap at best, forgotten by Christmas.
Hope I'm wrong.
The biggest challenge will be finding a place to see it... Hopefully it will be in as many theaters as An Inconvenient Truth was... It is looking unlikely at this time.
They were showing "Inconvenient Truth" in schools. What are the chances they'll show this one?
One of the things that surprised me in Oprah's presentation was a report that one school district had offered DOUBLE PAY for teachers who would give up tenure and agree to be rated, but the union refused. Don't let anybody tell you that the teachers union doesn't stand in the way of school reform.
J. Ewing
J, Excellent post !!! I almost spit out my lunch because I was laughing so hard at the idea of this movie running in some of this regions more challenged schools. Thank you !!!
Maybe we can have Tom Dooher and some other Education Minnesota personnel introduce it....
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