oh pshaw. If schools are so interested in attainment, why is it that what matters for graduation is hours spent butt in chair? I have seen some really good schools in my travels in the US with two children. But not many. Most of them were indeed warehouses devoted to teaching children to sit down and shut up and those schools tended to be in the inner-city, by the way, charter or not, no matter what the movie may say.
Oh and that parent-teacher thing they whine about? I went to mine, but they were always about how I could help the teacher, not about how we together could help the child. So.... Dana On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Casey Dougall < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I've recommended it before and I'll recommend it again. If you haven't > > seen > > Waiting for Superman, check it out. If you are sensitive, it might bring > a > > tear to your eyes. One of the students followed goes to one of the best > > public high schools in the country and enters the lottery for a charter > > school in a poor district. > > > > J > > > > - > > > > No need wasting a 1 slot netflix home delivery after this review. > > After all of the hype this movie received, I hoped for so much more. I left > the theater frustrated and disappointed. As a teacher, I felt Guggenheim > missed so many arguments that should have been addressed by any critical > thinker; namely, if the system is broken, which we all agree it is, then > what is the solution? Most of the information in this film was obvious to > me, but what I hoped to get out of it was some sort of understanding as to > how he proposes to fix it. After arguing that Nordic countries such as > Finland had better school systems, he made no attempt to explain what made > them better. Most frustrating was his depiction of American parents as > caring supporters of brilliant children. At a Title I school, few parents > ever show up for conferences despite the ridiculous hours I spend waiting > for them. He failed to show how schools are viewed as babysitters instead > of > breeding grounds for young scholars. He jumped on the bandwagon to blame > teachers/unions for the failure of the system instead of recognizing the > MASSIVE shift in morality and parenting that existed in those successful > years of our education system. I'm impressed by Michelle Rhee's attempt to > reform the system, as well as Gates's attempt to throw large sums of money > at the problem, however I don't see either of them becoming successful > without the support of communities that helped to create failing schools by > disallowing their students to be personally responsible, and holding > middle/high-schoolers accountable for their own education. Guggenheim never > filmed any child above the 5th Grade! How can he begin to criticize the > "dropout factories" that he never entered? 'I left the theater frustrated > and disappointed,' feeling that Guggenheim had coasted through this film on > the acclaim he received for "Inconvenient Truth" and not on any real merit > as an investigative filmmaker. I agree the system is broken, but Guggenheim > failed to do any good with the opportunity he had to help fix it. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340533 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
