Michelle Rhee: The Failing School System

The filmmakers purpose was to show people what was happening in the school system, and the failing schools and not so great neighborhoods. It showed charter schools, and how they were doing better than public schools.The claims in this film that are made is that the schools are getting more stupider or they aren't doing what they are supposed to. They showed statistics on different schools and states, Different kids and their home situations. The thesis of the film was to see how different schools, states, and countries school system worked and what we could do to change the ones that were failing. The claims that were made were that school systems were failing and it was time to change the system. In the film Michelle Rhee, who was the superintendent of the Washington D.C. public schools and she wanted to change how public schools worth ethic was and the way they ran the schools. In the film it shows validation when they show statistics on different states, countries, and schools and compare them to each other and how they showed the percentage of students that graduate and don’t graduate, which was a wide margin between each other. There were
The tone of the film I say it would be is judgemental on the school systems, government, and bad employees. They showed a lot of emotion towards what was happening and why they should help fix the issue. One mom was annoyed by the fact that her child’s teachers weren’t helping him read and send home his homework, she called multiple times to one of the teachers to make a conference to see how her child was performing in class and the teacher never called her back, one of the other teachers suggested to go to the school board and tell them about it, and they suggested a charter school and her and her child had to wait and to do a lottery to be entered into the school to get