If You Are a Parent or Teacher, You Must See This Movie

I watched Waiting For Superman last weekend, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days.  The well informed movie documents public education failing in America through personal interviews, history, animations, and statistics.  While poor teachers continue to hold teacher credentials and ruin children’s chances at success, quality education stands imprisoned by “the system” which is guarded by teachers unions with their own selfish interests.  When someone comes along with a passion to change the system to make education better, teachers’ unions silence them.  Several urban and suburban families are pictured with children who want quality education but are unable to afford it for their children .  These families are hanging in suspense hoping for a chance at a slot in a charter school for a  better education.  Waiting For Superman leaves you thinking…if something isn’t done to reform education in America, what will happen to our nation?