There IS Hope!

Yes, I have blogged a lot about people not caring and taking action on improving the education system. However, I have found proof that there are people feel the same way I do! Instead of blogging to express how they felt, someone directed a movie. The movie is called "Waiting for 'Superman'" and it is scheduled to show in Atlanta.
A man named Davis Guggenheim directed this movie with hopes that people start to care about other children and their education. “It haunted me to think about the broken schools in my own neighborhood,” he said. “Forty years have passed and we still haven’t figured out how to give kids a good education. What if I made a film that made people care about other people’s children?”
This man has won Academy Awards and he could be making films about other thing but he has chosen to focus his attention on education because he recognizes the problems we suffer. That is what I mean about stepping up to the plate. I commend this guy. Too bad this movie is only coming out in Atlanta but at least we are making progress slowly but surely.
So here is the synopsis of movie. It follows 5 children that are in the school system and the challenges they face to get a good education. "There is Anthony, a Washington, D.C., fifth-grader who lost his father to drugs and hopes to take another path; Bianca, a Harlem kindergartner whose single mom can no longer afford Catholic school tuition; Daisy, a fifth-grader from Los Angeles who dreams of college, even though her parents didn’t finish high school; Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who has unwillingly been put on a non-collegiate “track”; and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose school can’t provide him with the reading help he needs."
These are issues that everyday Americans face. And with this movie, hopefully change will be made. This movie was influential in such a way that the president of the American Federation of Teachers is revising the terms of tenure in the right direction which means if a teacher is rated ineffective, they will lose their jobs in the Washington D.C. area.
There IS hope everyone!!! Progress is being made slowly but surely! :)

Until Next Time...
Lauren!