Waiting for Superman notes

-Students who are less fortunate to get a education are randomly selected through a lottery type process
-Anthony is a yound kid who is taken care of by his grandmother, he is also eager to becoming educated
-Daisy has dreams of becoming a vetrenarian and her father believe she can do it, even though her family is  struggling with income
-Bianca's mother is dedicated to support her daughters education, going into college.
-The "no child left behind" proposal has not made the impact on our nation. We still see low reading and math scores.
-Either students are become more stupid or there is something wrong in the education system.
-Daisy will be facing a difficult path on her way to becoming a vetranarian, having to servive the "drop out factories."
-experts blame failing neighborhoods on failing schools, but the oppisite could be the real reason
-for the amount of money we spend on inmates we could be sending them to college for the same amount.
-There are so many regulations in education that it ends up creating a mess of priorities, the focus seems to be on money and less on the students.
-students with high performing teachers learn at a higher rate
-Teachers are protected by the teachers union which guarentees them a job for 10 years, it is practically impossible to fire a teacher when they are protected by this system.
-Under a teachers contract they can't recieve a pay raise even though they have displayed excellent results.
-Charter schools have a very high graduation rate and are on track to go to a four year college
-When public schools try to mimic the charter school system they face problems going against the system.

After watching the film I believe there needs to be a change to the teachers union. Teachers who are not performing as well as they should be do not deserve to be teaching students. Adjustments to the union would include negotioniating wages with teachers who are seeing a improvement in there students. When you have a system that does not allow a pay difference between a successful teacher and a lowsy teacher than you are not giving educators the opportunity to benefit from their hard work. Money seems to distract higher up personal from seeing how much students are struggling. They need to be less selfish and set priorities that benefit the students.