The Lottery is a movie centered around the open lottery for entry into the Harlem Success Academy, a successful charter school startup in Harlem, NY. It takes a look at the failures of public education and how can we go about securing a better future for our children. Over 2,000 parents signed up for the lottery for about 100 slots.
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A subplot of the movie is the Harlem Success Academy looking to expand with no other option other than to enter a failing, furloughed public school. It is the essential fight of today’s education. Charters are taking the space of public schools both literally and figuratively. Thehave been placed as the future of education.
The fight of teacher unions is also catalogued in the movies. Charter schools are not fans of the teacher unions because they believe their rules cause too much interruption in the reform of education. There are too many policies and procedures. There are too many rules to follow which disrupt change.
If you have a good two hours, it is a great movie to check out the current trends of education in America and how we plan to prepare our children for a life of success.
Our post-discussion focused on the power of unions in the school system and their contributions or distractions to real education.
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