Waiting For Superman Rhetorical Analysis

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Parents want the best possible education for their children. They are willing to sacrifice time and money and do all in their power to make sure their children receive outstanding educations. Parents want to see their children prosper in life and because of this must make a choice of where to send them to school. There are many debates over which types of school are the best, whether the best schools are public, private, or charter. The two documentaries I will be discussing “Waiting for Superman” and “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman” have opposing views on the issue. The documentary “Waiting for Superman” portrays public schools as a road to failure for children and believe the best education is in charter schools, white “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman” refutes claim that charter schools are the best for children. I am personally in favor of both, I feel as though public schools are a great source of education and I feel as though many charter schools are positive influences for children in impoverished areas to receive a better education. The documentary “Waiting …show more content…
It is stated that since 1971, school spending has increased, doubling in spending on each child, while math and English scores have flat lined. Geoffrey Canada, who is featured throughout the documentary, argues that children think “the world is cold and that they do not understand why they were given the end of the stick.” Canada believes that the public school system has been failing because teachers receive tenure after two years and that many of them give up on teaching after the allotted time. It becomes very difficult to fire teachers after they receive tenure, only 1 in 2,500 teachers have lost their teaching credentials, and this leads to the “lemon dance” where principals trade off their bad teachers to new schools in hopes of them improving in new
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of today America ranks 23rd in science, 31st in math, and 14th in reading (Eco.). In order to put American students on par with the rest of the world radical alterations should take place to reform the education system. In the documentary Waiting for Superman the director, Davis Guggenheim, claimed that charter schools were a better option than public schools. The reasons for charter schools being better than public schools that were stated in the documentary were predominantly inaccurate. In reality…

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