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Actors: Geoffrey Canada, George Reeves, Michelle Rhee, Bill Strickland, Randi Weingarten
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.
“Drop-out factories” and “Academic sinkholes”…. I always knew the education system was messed up in the states but I had no idea to what extent and why…. Davis Guggenheim, the guy who brought us “It Might Get Loud” and “An Inconvenient Truth” nails it with this one…. so much I didn’t know about the US schooling system and the reasons for it’s meltdown so to speak. Guggenheim also did a doci in 2001 called “The First Year” which actually laid some of the groundwork for this film.