The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Imagine your child’s hopes and dreams of getting into a good school were left up to a series of random numbers pulled in a lottery.
Impossible? Not for every one.
In "Waiting for ‘Superman' "[], a new documentary that examines public education and opens Friday in Atlanta, we meet five such kids, their parents and the adults who stand in their way.
There is Anthony, a Washington, D.C., fifth-grader who lost his father to drugs and hopes to take another path; Bianca, a Harlem kindergartner whose single mom can no longer afford Catholic school tuition; Daisy, a fifth-grader from Los Angeles who dreams of college, even