Above is a link (if you are a fellow user of Netflix) to the film Waiting For "Superman" which is a film about the public and charter schooling systems in the United States. Director and documentarian Davis Guggenheim portrays a frightening picture of the United States public school systems and their currently failing conditions through interviews with students, teachers, and parents. The movie is in few ways uplifting and in many ways bleak, getting the point across that the current system is not working and needs a drastic change. This change comes in the form of charter school systems and the fully encompassing academic life they offer.
Personally there is something oddly bias to me about Guggenheim's treatment of the charter schools he displays in the movie. Yes the practices they have are impressive and have shown the results that are needed, but after watching I felt that he told me that the charter schools were the only way to save our nations public schooling systems. I'm not sure if others felt that way, but I did. Here's a trailer (to get you interested if you don't have Netflix).
Waiting for "Superman" trailer, Youtube.com
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