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Right out of the gate, I am a public school teacher and a member of a teachers' union holding office in my local. A group of twenty of us from the district got together and went to see Waiting for Superman. The film primarily focused on four or five families who are entering lotteries for charter schools. Most of the families live in poor urban areas where the neighborhood schools are failing. Parents, students, administrators including Margaret Rhee are interviewed as to what the problems and solutions are for public education. So, who is responsible for the failure? Well, politicians, administrators, teachers, teacher unions and parents all share in the blame. At the end of the movie the lotteries are shown and students are winning or nowinning a place in the school they have chosen. Expect to be in tears,I was and I wasn't the only one. There is plenty of blame to go around, shame on us Americans for allowing this to happen. We all need to dialogue.
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