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Waiting for Superman is a documentary movie directed by Bill Kimball. It was released on October 10th, 2010 in America. Both Geoffrey Canada and George Reeves are the starring of the movie. In 2010, the documentary movie won the Sundance Film Festival Documentary Award. The movie is centered on the different problems of the American public education system. The United States claimed to have the world’s best public education system in the old days. However, it comes into a dilemma in the past thirty years. Although many politicians constantly stressed on the need to improve the American public education system, a great quantity of problems still existed. Thousands of children still cannot get the chance to go to a good college. Even if they could go to high school, their school is a dropout factory so that they will not graduate in the end. The documentary movies chose a few families, including an ordinary family, a poor family and a rich family and recorded the life of them as well as their interview. What’s more, it also showed the views of many people who had received good education and president of the Unites States for the education reform. The movie deeply revealed the seriousness of the current situation of the American public education system. It told people a fact that it is not simply the problem of the education system itself. It involved many interests of different parties so that immediate measures should be taken in order to solve the problems.
As for me, I cannot agree more with the director-Bill Kimball. For the first time that I have realized that even the strongest country as the United States still has many problems and difficulties in education reform. It is high time that Americans paid more attention to the education reform and provided a good environment for children to study. The children are the future of America, even for the whole world. Providing a chance for each of them to be given good education is the basic task of the politicians. Just as saying in the movie: “The problem is very complex, but the steps are simple”. Therefore, the government should make every effort to solve these two problems. The first one is the
problem of fairness. We know it is the biggest problem of the education system in every country. No matter how difficult it is, we should try. It would be better than we do nothing about it. In America, they choose to enroll a child in the hands of luck. If they were chosen, they thanked to their luck. If not, they had nothing to do but accepted. When I saw that all the children’s fate was decided by a drawing, I burst into tears while looking at their small faces. I dare not to say Chinese education system is very good but I am so lucky and graceful that Chinese children can have a chance to go to a good school if they study hard enough. Some children in America just do not understand why they could not go to an excellent high school or why they could not graduate from their high school. As a matter of fact, what was said in the end of the movie is definitely correct. “Great school won’t come from winning the lottery; they won’t come from superman; they will come from you.” Thus, we need to try to be fair to every child. The second one is the problem of teachers. The leaders should remove the barriers to change the teacher system and quality. The reform should put great emphasis on the quality teacher. It is true that great school comes from great people. What’s more, the child is not only affected by their parents but also by their teachers. The feature of the school and the behavior of teachers have great impact on every child. For example, the excellent teacher in the movie named Harriet Ball turned her multiplication tables into a song which helped students learn in an enjoyable way. But the terms of tenure system in America is not beneficial to dismissing the unqualified teacher .So it is important to alter the terms of tenure and evaluate the teachers effectively. Good and excellent teachers should be awarded and given high praise while unqualified teachers should be fired for they cannot have the privilege of teaching in a school.
I would like to recommend this movie because of three points: its attractive name; meaningful topic; important influence. First of all, the name of the documentary movie is very attractive. All the children who are eager to receive good education are looking for a superman so that they and their
school can be saved. Secondly, the topic of the movie is about the American public education system reform so that it not only helps people to know more about the details of American public education system but also encourages people to think more about the education system of their own country. Thirdly, it helps those children who now have a chance to go to school cherish it and learn as much as they can to be excellent people in future.