School sucks

Waiting for Superman (2010)

This is a documentary about the failing public school system in USA. Even though I already knew it was quite messed up, this managed to give quite a nice insight on how bad things are. I mean if a principle of a school uses double negative while speaking about the low test grades of English language, that's really bad. "We ain't got no chance". Simply hilarious. The documentary had it's moments but it just felt that it was underlining and over simplifying things a bit too much. Though I guess that's what you need to get through to the simple folk, as sad as that may sound. It follows the school lottery for children's education, the people who are doing the education right, the people who are doing the education wrong, the people who are trying to change the system and the people who want to keep the system as it is. So it covers many sides of the story and the underlying message of giving the statistics human faces gets through quite well. It's claim that the teachers are to be blamed for the problem is only part of the solution and in the end it's just another average documentary that falls into the same problems as most documentaries.
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