"Waiting For Superman" The Movie

By John Nolte from Big Hollywood:

With what’s happening today in Wisconsin we’re hearing a lot about civil rights and workers rights and all those buzz words the Left uses to make something wicked sound noble. The idea that collective bargaining is some kind of right is beyond absurd. I’ve been in the workforce for going on 30 years now and have never had the right to collective bargain and up until the aristocratic public worker class rose up in my home state to hold onto their government-enforced aristocracy, I had no idea what collective bargaining was. Essentially, “collective bargaining” allows a union to have a say, not only in wages and benefits, but also in company policy, everything from how many hours an employee will work each week to, incredibly, the procedures necessary for termination.

If you want to see first hand a heartbreaking and absolutely frightening look at the human toll of giving these corrupt teachers unions collective bargaining rights, I urge you again to see what is the most important film of last year, the unfairly Oscar-snubbed (for political reasons) ”Waiting for Superman.” Written and directed by Davis Guggenheim, the proud, union-loving liberal who won an Oscar for his Global Warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” not only is this searing look at the devastation unions have brought down on our children an exceptionally well produced film, but it’s also a very personal work from a filmmaker who probably had a Road to Damascus moment. Guggenheim went in likely expecting to discover a public school system under assault by budget cuts and underpaid teachers. What he found was the complete opposite. That he told the truth, that he bucked the Leftist narrative and put what’s best for America’s children above his own preconceived notions and then picked a fight with one of the most ruthless unions in America, is to this Oscar winner’s eternal credit.

Personal note: I taught high school in southeast Wisconsin, Mukwonago H.S., for one year. It was a long time ago, 1977-78. There was a business ed instructor I only knew by name because he never came to work. He had secured a position with Amway in '77 but had accrued sick days over the years. Each and every day during that school year he called in sick--182 days in all. Mukwonago must have had a strong union. I hope the taxpayers got their money's worth.