Journal 7 Waiting for Superman

Waiting for Superman

            Last class we watched a documentary called “Waiting for Superman”, it revealed the reality of the struggles that take place in our schools as our children strive to get an education. It saddened me to watch these helpless children struggle while trying to get an education. The Documentary showed what it’s like in our schools, how children never get a one on one with teachers and how they end up failing because of a bad teacher. Parents send their children to school every day expecting that they will get the proper education, and they only will if they are lucky enough to have a good teacher. The Documentary also showed the children that are unfortunate to have that bad teacher, and how they have resulted to being chosen to attend a better school. It broke my heart to watch the children’s faces as they sit in a room waiting for a chance in life, as their numbers or names were being called out or not. It is a sad situation and it happens in several schools, and it’s not only in the so called bad neighborhoods that these bad teachers work in.  I live in a decent neighborhood in Mandarin and the school that my 8 year old cousin goes to is graded an A school. However, the teacher that he has doesn’t reflect that. He’s been sent to a math tutor for several months to help him and once he was doing “wonderful” as the tutor said he no longer needed to attend. Since he’d been going to the tutor he brought his math up to an A, and since he’s stopped his grade dropped back down to a D. It isn’t just the neighborhood that we live in, but it’s the teachers want to teach our children.