Waiting For Superman Film Analysis

The film, Waiting for Superman directed by Davis Guggenheim, investigates the public school system in the United States. Guggenheim uncovers the many ways in which education in America has declined. Rather than relying largely on statistics and expert opinions. Waiting for “Superman” tells the story of five children who enter a lottery to win a coveted place in a charter school. Four of them seek to escape the public schools; one was asked to leave a Catholic school because her mother couldn’t afford the tuition. Four of the children are black or Hispanic and live in gritty neighborhoods, while the one white child lives in a leafy suburb. By following them, Guggenheim is able to portray each students own individual struggles and triumphs within problem of the plagued academic settings where there are no easy solutions to the myriad issues that affect them. Guggenheim,

The United States educational system is unable to meet the needs of our extremely connected society. Parents are not involved enough leading to teachers becoming frustrated. If parents are not practicing or going over what their children learned in school, then their children may never improve. Teachers can only do so much during the hours they have the students in school. If parents do not help their students then the students may not reach their highest potential. With schools being overcrowded, classroom sizes are becoming larger and that makes it tougher to learn and for teacher to be effective in their teaching. The smaller the class size, the better experience each student will have. As the U.S.economy continues to improve, public school funding is still feeling the constraints from the recession in 2008. Funding public schools never made it back onto the list and so this is causing less funding on a per student basis. If we do not fund our public school will we ever be able to reach our maximum