Microsoft Propaganda Ruins "Waiting for Superman"

(http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/)

The education documentary "Waiting for Superman" starts off decently enough, and its message of highly paid public school teachers who cannot teach is a pretty good explanation of what everyone has long suspected, yet the film takes a wrong turn somewhere that makes you realize that the viewer has been set up. The film's message of American students unable to compete with foreign students quickly takes a darker turn when it is suggested that American workers are not being produced in enough quantity for the "job openings of the future" (or whatever) and foreign workers have to be shipped into the United States to fill jobs that Americans cannot fill, ala George Bush's treasonous statement of foreign workers "doing the jobs that Americans are not qualified to do." The film features the surprising visage of Bill Gates looking typically unkempted and slipping into the need for better schools to educate our children so that we can have more American workers doing the jobs that Bill Gates tries to fill with Americans but cannot fill even though we have millions of qualified workers so we have to go to foreign countries and get 'qualified' workers even though when they get here they have to be trained by Americans who are fired after they train their foreign replacements (or whatever).

This truly dishonest piece of corporate "astroturf" would be easy to ignore if we didn't have millions upon millions of hard working Americans students, many of them now being forced to compete for education spots against foreign students who came to the US to steal American jobs.


One of many criticisms of the film:

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/09/n ... d-not.html

It comes as no surprise that Bill Gates loves the film. He even showed up at the advanced screening at Sundance, where it won the audience award for best documentary. Gates told Reuters, "Many of these high schools are terrible, and this film, 'Waiting for Superman' by Davis Guggenheim, which I have a very minor part in, tells this story in a brilliant way."
[Translation: terrible schools = dumb Americans = smart foreigners = let's fire Americans from their jobs and replace them with foreigners].