We are a state at war, and if we suffer this war, our country is in serious danger. But we're not talk around the war in Afghanistan, we're talking around the war going on hera in our country, the war of education.In the new documentary Waiting for "Superman" we get an up close look at the field through the eyes of 5 young kids, who along with their parents, are in a battle to get a train that can provide them a quality education.
t first glance, most people would take that these kids are nothing like them, but the contrary is true.These kids represent you, me, and every kid and parent who is in research of promise and chance to form their lives better.That is what America is reinforced on, its what people have sacrificed and died for throughout our story as a nation, the chance to give the elusive "America Dream."Throughout this film, we are constrained to present the fact that unless something is done to alter the educational system, the "dream" will get just that for millions and millions of Americans.The Civic Rights campaign in this land was founded on the assumption that black people wanted to be treated equally as their white counterparts, not better, but as so they would take the same approach to life, liberty and the interest of felicity that everyone was promised in the document that governs our country.Well, this is just what the new people in this picture are desperately searching for. They lack the same chance to follow their dreams as everyone else who lives in affluent school districts. They lack the same care and attention given to kids who hold the money to attend private schools or go to charter schools that send kids to colleges at an alarming rate.
The weather of inner city schools are as author Johnathan Kozol described, "The Dishonour Of The Nation." We owe them more. Lucky kids in the suburbs get new books and computers, air conditioned classrooms with a teacher's aid and tutors and mentors to aid them through the educational process, while the kids in the interior city are sharing used books. Dilapidated buildings with no air conditioner in the summer or passion in the winter. They are faced with over-crowded classrooms and under paid, under-appreciated teachers who seek to convey to the people of minds. Being born on the wrong side of the tracks shouldn't dictate the case of instruction you receive. Then, they are actually judged and compared through standardized tests to the schools in the suburbs. But how could their test scores possibly be like if they are not getting the same education?
These kids simply need somebody to see that they matter, and careless of their background, neighborhood, or their economic condition that they too deserve the chance to chase their dreams! That if given the same tools, same expectations, same teachers and same instructions they can excel and remind Us that you should never evaluate a script by its cover.This film is important as it brings the hardships of many Americans to everyone's attention. The trouble and pain of a father who has no alternative but to distinguish her baby that she can't look a good school because she doesn't take the money spills across the screen.The heart wrenching part where a father has to really tell her children that she doesn't know why their teacher can't help them learn to see their language better. Could you think having to separate your baby that you don't recognize how they will satisfy their ambition of becoming a doctor because getting into college will be lots more difficult simply because the train they get to attend doesn't actually make them or throw them a large probability to go college?We are brought side to look with the fact that unless we do something, unless we stand up and unite, that our kids will fail. And that way we fail, all of us, regardless of which side of the tracks you go on.We will go because of a system that isn't set up to serve everyone succeed, only the ones that dwell in certain areas, or have parents who can give to commit them to private schools.And that will think that the very words our kids say every day when they get to school will think nothing. "liberty and judge for all!" Instead, they leave only get to keep to look for Superman.
On Monday, A Poet and A Profit will provide a free screening of the movie Waiting for "Superman," in Largo, MD at the Magic Johnson AMC theaters.We felt that the paper and ideas in this film are too important for people not to see and discourse in every community.As a partnership, we both felt that one way to open the content of this film was to offer a free screening of the film to mass in the community in which we both reside, as an inducement to get out and see it.With so many things going on in our country, sometimes issues such as education get pushed to the rear and we felt that we couldn't let this to find with this film.We have reached out to mass in our community and beyond in an attempt to to get as many types of people we can to come and see the film so the talks and treatment can get as to how we can systematically change and modify the educational system to see that every baby has access to quality education beginning from pre-school and beyond.We encourage anybody who wants to get a conflict and wants to get a up close first hand look at a job that Micro-soft founder and renowned philanthropist Bill Gates calls "crucial to our nations's long term next" to get out and see the movie.If you can't get it to our screening, find out where the picture is showing in your area, take a champion or family member, but go see this film.It may be the last straw that causes us to wish to make action instead of existence what Newark Mayor Corey Booker calls "sedentary agitation" which way we get mad at the job but never do anything to work it.Now is your chance, so what will you do?
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