“The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman” reminds me why we need to defend our public small school choice model

The new documentary “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman” documents the backdoor privatization of NYC's public schools under the guise of "accountability" and advocates for many of the very principles of parent involvement, equitable public funding, small class size, experienced dynamic and unionized teachers that we take pride in at Lagunitas.

I fear for how the last year of a manufactured crisis, pink slips, proposals to cut services, backlash against environmental education, push to make our school more "efficient," calls for spinning off our Waldorf program into a charter school, and the quiet return of high stakes standardized testing into our curriculum are putting us right on course for the same dismantling of our school as is happening across the country.

To order a copy of the film go to http://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org/ and keep an eye out for the screening I am planning soon.