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'Waiting for Superman' Exposes Education Crisis; Christians Respond | Christianpost.com

'Waiting for Superman' Exposes Education Crisis; Christians Respond | Christianpost.com

'Waiting for Superman' Exposes Education Crisis; Christians Respond

By Felicia Howard|Christian Post Correspondent

A failing education system, bad teachers, below average students, and a country falling behind – the film “Waiting for Superman” explores education in the United States and its continuing failing factors. This suspenseful tear-jerker takes viewers into the lives of promising students in a school system that hinders instead of helps them to reach academic success.

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(Photo: Poster, Waiting for Superman)

The film, a Davis Guggenheim documentary, analyzes what it calls “dropout factories” and “academic sinkholes” that the nation’s students are trapped in, with teachers who cannot be fired, and a system that allows even bad