Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

Did any of you see the movie that came out a year ago called "Waiting For Superman?" It's a movie about the struggles of the American public education system. It shows both the despair of many students and parents and the hope that some educators have been able to offer. I was particularly curious about how the producers chose the title of the movie. Early in the film one of the central characters, an educator named Geoffrey Canada, tells the story of how as a child his mother told him one day that Superman wasn't real. Canada said he still remembers the anxiety and sadness he felt when it dawned on him that if Superman isn't real then "no one is coming to save him." And as I understand the metaphor, the movie-makers want us to come to grips with the fact that Superman isn't coming to save our education system, that if we want to make the system better we're going to have to do something ourselves.