Superman Reflection

I thought the movie was great! It had been something discussed in a prior class with Dr. Grace, and was something I was looking forward to renting myself. This documentary really gave me a good idea about how public education is structured in our country. I never really knew that teachers unions were the problem, but through watching Waiting for Superman, it was clearly explained just how true it was. I can safely say that I did not really appreciate my public education as a child. I never really knew what some inner city and lower class neighborhoods had to do just to put their child in a good school. I was naive to the fact of how staggering the number of failing schools in America is, and how behind we are when stacked up against nations like China. The United States is slowly becoming less valuable because the education system is not working for us anymore. Where many other nations have adapted the ever-changing educational structure of schools, the United States has not kept up. Watching this film made we want to go and teach in a school like in the documentary and help be an example of what and engaging and effective teacher is.