Response to the movie - Waiting for "Superman"

Waiting for “Superman”

            In the beginning of the movie when Geoffrey Canada said that his mom told him the superman is not real, it made me think of how many lies we children are told from the beginning. We are told from the beginning to dream big and that we can become whatever we want, but in the end when we get to school our education system stops us from fulfilling our dream. This movie made me realize that when we are younger we believe that we can do anything because our parents and others tell us, but then we have these standardized tests informing us that we cannot. So, why give these young children false hope that they can become whatever they want when they grow older and are ready to start their career. The children in this movie are well aware that the school they are attending is not the best as the others and that there is a high dropout rate. When they discussed during the movie about how there is this thing called tenure, which basically says that a teacher cannot be fired I was shocked! Why would they ever allow giving something like this to a teacher, like what if they are a horrible teacher?  This just shows how much the board of education does not care for the student’s education. I feel as if these teachers are being guaranteed that their life is secured for the future and it does not matter if they are bad teachers or not. Later on when they showed in the movie that 23 were schools were closed I thought to myself how is this helping out these children. By closing down a school that actually just makes these kids furious because they want to be in school. It is not their fault that the schools they attended are poorly funded and the only actions that are being taken is to close down the school. Watching this movie made me think more about the education system we have today because it is still the same, I feel as if much has not changed.