WHERE IS AMERICAN PEOPLE'S SUPERHERO?

For many years the United States’ educational system has been criticized because of its failures in public education, where many of American people are affected. WAITING FOR SUPERMAN by Davis Guggenheim (2009) is a documentary that shows us the public school situation and the learning and teaching problems in this country; one of them, perhaps the most important is the access to education. This leads us to believe that this situation is not far from us. We can see it around the world. For that reason, this text seeks to enable a critical reflection about American’s problems in education. We can argue that the governments’ role is to watch over education for all people, in other that we have access to public schools.

First of all, economic conditions are one of the major causes to come to school. Poor people do not have enough resources to pay for private education. In the same way, the access to education can not be seeing as a lottery play, in which only are favored those who win. For example, the children’s case in the film, who were not selected. This leads us to ask “what happen with this people? This is an evidence that shows the right to equality’s violation.

Following that, political conditions are the other cause by which people do not have access to public schools. The administrative bureaucracy spends a lot of money in other social systems such as: politics, war, culture, etc. But, they never spend in education purposes. Taking to account that education is a formative process that gives us the knowledge of the world developing skills and values. It also makes us capable of interpreting. The government has to promote politics solutions because education is a fundamental human right.

Finally, we can say that all conditions that we have been arguing in this text are the cause by which, people do not have access to public schools. This is a harsh reality which is fraught with serious difficulties like “IGNORANCE” if we do not have chance to study, we will be lack of knowledge. We have the right to free education, regardless of our social class, ethnicity, background, etc.

In summary, there are many people who are deprived of education. Nowadays, it is difficult for them get access in, because of puberty, or for some people who wants to achieve their personal purpose. But where is our SUERHERO? Is there nobody to save us?