Teachers Fighting Back On Screen and in the Streets

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Washington Teachers Union Summer Movie Series features a screening of The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman this afternoon at 1:15 at the Benning Road/Dorothy Height Public Library. The screening comes in the wake of Friday’s firing of more than 200 DC teachers, and in the midst of planning for the national "Save Our Schools" march and rally coming up on July 30. Written and directed by New York City public school teachers and parents in response to Waiting for Superman – a film widely seen by teachers as misleading -- The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman “depicts the real-life experiences of public school parents and educators to show how these so-called reforms are actually hurting education” says WTU Local 6. The film “also highlights the kinds of real reform - inside schools and in our society as a whole - that are urgently needed to genuinely transform education in this country.