Waiting For Superman

We watched the movie, "Waiting For Superman" in class. I thought this was a really good movie. It covered many things in our education system that need to be changed and things we need to focus on. The movie also focused on some students in Washington D.C who were looking into getting into Charter schools. These students were not receiving a great education, so they applied to charter schools. Each school had a lottery to pick which students would be accepted. Only two out of the five students were picked to be enrolled in the schools. It was really difficult to see how hurt these students and their families were. This made me realize how fortunite I was to not have to worry about my education it was just something that I guess many of us take for granted. This movie opened my eyes to the flaws in the United States education stystem. For example, we are not able to get rid of bad teachers because of the tenure contracts that many teachers have. I think if we got rid of the tenure and based pay off of performance, like Michelle suggested in the movie, this would improve teaching and encourage teachers to put time and effort into such an important part of a child's future-their education. We clearly need to change our priorities, it shouldn't be about the adults, it should be about the students.