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Don’t wait for Superman — focus on teachers - The Boston Globe

Don’t wait for Superman — focus on teachers - The Boston Globe

Don’t wait for Superman — focus on teachers

East Boston teacher Amanda Sequin won a national award in 2006.East Boston teacher Amanda Sequin won a national award in 2006. (File 2006/ The Boston Globe)

IN THE new documentary “Waiting For Superman,’’ we see an old “Superman’’ film clip that shows our hero rescuing a school bus full of children from near disaster. Too many schoolchildren, director Davis Guggenheim reminds us, are waiting for such a savior to swoop in and give them a better shot at success. The voices in the film — parents, policy leaders, and philanthropists — highlight an undeniable crisis in public education and offer their recipes for change. But a critical voice is absent from the film — the voice of teachers.

As public school teachers in Boston, we recognized familiar frustrations with a dysfunctional system. Still, the policy solutions implied in the film — getting rid of bad teachers and expanding charter schools — will not go far


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