FIRST:
Watch the trailer for the longer documentary that sets the record straight. Then if you want to learn more, please watch the full length version (scroll down to find it).
SECOND:
Then there’s “Fact-checking Waiting for Superman” that appeared at the Huffington Post.
Fact-checking Waiting for ‘Superman’: Documentary or Urban Myth?
“We simply cannot trust the corporate oligarchy currently making policies for our schools to create a fair evaluation system, including those who backed Waiting for ‘Superman‘, given their proclivity to misuse and distort data, as shown by the inaccurate figures cited in the film.”
“Rather than a documentary, perhaps the movie (Waiting for Superman) should be re-categorized, with an appropriate disclaimer, as an urban myth.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonie-haimson/factchecking-waiting-for-_b_802900.html
THIRD:
Full length version of “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman”
FOURTH: Recently I had a debate with an individual, an acquaintance, who believed the schools were broken and the only way to fix them was to take away all teacher legal, due process rights so any teacher could be fired without due process. That way, the schools would be able to remove so-called incompetent teachers without the burden of proof.
That’s why I suggest you also read: The Myth of Teacher Tenure published by The Washington Post
“School districts consistently win the vast majority of the court decisions concerning the involuntary cessation of a teacher’s employment based on incompetency. In a comprehensive canvassing of court decisions based on teacher evaluation for competency, I found that the defendant districts prevailed in more than a 3-to-1 ratio, and that there was no significant difference between the outcomes for nontenured as compared to tenured teachers.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/teachers/the-myth-of-teacher-tenure.html
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Lloyd Lofthouse is a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran,
who taught in the public schools for thirty years (1975 – 2005).
His first novel was the award winning historical fiction My Splendid Concubine [3rd edition]. His second novel was the award winning thriller Running with the Enemy. His short story A Night at the “Well of Purity” was named a finalist of the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards. His wife is Anchee Min, the international, best-selling, award winning author of Red Azalea, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1992).
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Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé 
Aurora
May 4, 2014 at 20:15
The injustice of it all, and to think this is America. I’d expect this of Russia or China, but not the United States. How disgusting.
Lloyd Lofthouse
May 5, 2014 at 08:18
Yep!
Val
July 6, 2014 at 14:00
I read your other post where you asked if it was time to bring out the pitchforks and sharpen that beheading blade. I think so. The monsters who are funding the attack on the public schools must be burned at the stake. They are devils.
Lloyd Lofthouse
July 7, 2014 at 07:13
You won’t get an argument from me.
One thing to keep in mind—never let your enemy know what you are planning to do, or they will mobilize their troops and strike first or set an ambush. Don’t forget the G. W. Bush doctrine and Iraq: Attack first at any hint that another country or its leader—as long as they don’t have nuclear weapons—might one day threaten the U.S. in any way, even economically.