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Originally Posted by bowener
I haven't seen it. Please expand on what you mean.
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I could probably write 20 + pages right now on how wrong wrong wrong that film is. It posits the high-performing charter school as the model that every school needs to take. The problem with education is 100% the fault of bad teachers and school district bureaucracy for this film. Look at these charter schools that do perform! Make every school like that! For the kids!
There are numerous problems with the film, mostly from things/aspects to the problem of education in America that the film doesn't even bother to bring up. We don't see ANY footage of the high-performing public schools. We don't get the acknowledgement that the high-performing charter schools that the film loves are statistically as rare as high-performing public schools. We aren't told that the model schools in the film are funded 2/3rd by private dollars, as if having triple the funding as public schools or all-public charters
doesn't make a difference. There is NO responsibility placed on the kids for their own success. There is NO responsibility placed on the parents for their kids' success or failure. The only kids we see in the film from poor neighborhoods are good students with at least one parent that really cares about their kid's education. There is NO footage of the many, many, many students whose parents don't give a single shit about their education, the students whose parents sell or do drugs out of their home, the students who have not been given a reason achieve.
It's simply the most dishonest, incomplete documentary I've ever seen. It's a strange combination of a misguided-in-this-instance free-market approach and a bunch of feel-good psuedo-Leftism.