City+Kid,+City+Teacher

As a city kid born and bred and as an urban teacher earning my bread, I am forced to ponder what the director of Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim, could possibly know or even remotely intuit regarding an urban student's deeply embedded historical, social, and, psychological realities, values, and behavioural codes that will express themselves in ferocious resistence to all that attempts to intrude into their sense of meaning, Depicting students as "Little Tabula Razsa" precipitously teetering between sweet delight ( charter school) and endless night ,(public schools) is crude and exploitive in multiple senses.. As a city kid I can smell Mr. Guggenheim's privleged past and his desire, given the TBC