The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman...the movie

There has been much ado about the documentary film Waiting for Superman. In many ways this film has done much good for the education reform movement. It got people motivated. But there are many people, primarily parents, teachers and activists, who voiced that the film was too simplistic and destroyed much of the momentum towards true reform.

SocialistWorker.org states, "[Waiting for Superman] touted corporate reformers as education "experts" and painted teachers, tenure, and the unions that protect them as the enemy. The film completely ignored the effects of broader social problems like poverty and racism, while pointing to charter schools and privatization as magic solutions." (read more about Waiting for Superman on our blog post Join the Conversation: Charter Schools)

A new documentary claims it has captured the true voices of education reform from parents, teachers and community members. It's called The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman.

According to Diane Ravitch (in the film promo above) Waiting for Superman's message demoralized teachers. "It takes a village to raise a child and the corporate reform movement has caused the village to fall into distension and people are fighting each other. At the same time the budget for education is being slashed and corporate taxes are going down." She says, "we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore." 

Read the article here. Read more about the documentary here.