Essay Sample on Waiting for Superman: Public School Struggles vs. Charter School Success

Introduction

The video film "waiting for "Superman" by Guggenheim describes some of the problems and difficulties that children in public schools usually experience compared to the children in charter schools. Five children namely Bianca, Emily, Anthony, Daisy, and Francisco are used by the author to elaborate on the problems the children in public schools face while trying to achieve their goals similarly compared to the children in charter schools. Guggenheim also states that most public schools in the USA, have taken the (No Child Left Behind) act, to be like a ride (Guggenheim et al.). Public students are being loaded with many children beyond what they can manage since there are no entrance limitations compared to the private schools.

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Also, the film fails to bring out the concept of poverty in a transparent manner. However, the narrator uses five children in public schools with their parents and states some of their experiences. He says that most student's personality and success is determined by the place a child comes from. Some of the public schools are produced by the "dropout factories", and hence much attention won't be spared to ensure that the schools are equipped with the necessary equipment's, instead most children will drop out and join the military due to the poor education in the schools that will automatically deprive them the chances to enter colleges and universities.

The five children further state that they have no control of the poor services being rendered in the public schools, and they are sure that they will not get chances to join higher learning institutions to achieve their dreams if they do not transfer to the charter schools. However, the filmmaker states that the students come from humble backgrounds and hence might get difficulties to join the charter schools (Guggenheim et al.).

Savage inequalities, on the other hand, emphasizes, even further and highlights through children themselves, some of the trouble experiences they face while in schools. Among the problems, Alexander, a 16-year old student states that poverty is one of the issues facing public schools (Kozol). Most of the parents in the school are not in a position to make contributions to build their schools even if they were called upon to.

The student further says that the quality of education in public schools is worse, and most of its students finally end up joining the military. Suddenly, this is uniform to every student, including those who have ambitions of going into higher standards to change the wrong situation, as illustrated by the five children in the film of "waiting for "Superman." According to Alexander and other students interviewed, the services offered in the schools resemble "welfare hospital," which is free. For this reason, no one cares because, it is NCLB act in place (chapter 4), also stated by Guggenheim in his film (Guggenheim et al.). Section 3 of the savage inequalities begins by highlighting some of the problems that Carrossi, an 8-year old student, later confirms to be true in chapter 4 of the journal (Kozol). The challenges include inadequate classrooms, educators, poor hygiene, and lee textbooks. With the unavailability of these resources, the students confirm that their dreams are usually significantly in limbo.

Conclusion

As readers or viewers of this articles and films, the knowledge can quickly increase the depth of our understanding of public education. With the prevalence of such cases as Kozol and Guggenheim reveal, readers can take this opportunity to form organizations and help the situation, as Alexander says that a student, they are very aware of the unfortunate incidences but unfortunately have nothing to do to change the location. The viewers can, therefore, use their levels to shape the education system in the public schools, or else, prophesy of Guggenheim that future generations will be ruined shall come to pass.

Works Cited

Guggenheim, Davis, et al. Waiting for" Superman." 2011. Retrieved from https://olin.tind.io/record/139993/

Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's schools. Broadway Books, 2012.