Film Screening: Waiting for Superman

Venue: Seabrooke Theatre, Durban High School (225 St Thomas Road, Musgrave, Durban)
Date: 31 August 2011, 5 for 5:30pm
Price: R20, payable at registration
Please note that space is limited, so RSVP early to book your space. You can RSVP via email (rsvp@ddpdurban.org.za), telephone (031 304 9305) or fax (031 3062216). RSVP’s close on Friday 26 August.

More about Waiting for Superman:
• Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America – as in South Africa – parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning – failure factories more likely to produce drop-outs than graduates. And despite decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the problem, public schools haven't improved markedly. Why? There is an answer. And it's not what you think.
• From the director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, comes Waiting for 'Superman’, a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories – from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system. Tackling such politically radioactive topics as the power of teachers' unions and the entrenchment of school bureaucracies, Guggenheim reveals the invisible forces that have held true education reform back for decades.