No Future Left Behind

Think you're drawing incorrect conclusions here. Just because you THINK teachers wrote the script doesn't mean that they did. In fact, I know for a fact, this was a script written by the kids themselves.

The kids wrote this script and storyboard themselves - it is their message. It was a keynote to other kids about what they want for education. Sorry it made you feel "yucky" but they do have an opinion and right to share it.

Thumbs up on this project. Looks like your kids are already immersed in VWs. Outstanding!

@mrich1911

I suppose to someone who has never heard a single word of these reform ideas, it could be enlightening.

I also think that when posting video of children online, the footage should be more, real, less scripted and prescribed. That is just my opinion, but I have a problem with telling kids to say something, and then filming them as they say it.... then portraying it as a vital message from the mouths of babes.

I couldn't agree more that our current system is out of date, mismatched and indeed a relic of a time long since past. However, I think this video adds nothing to the conversation that hasn't already been covered time and time again. It isn't a bad video. The message is OK and the cause is noble... it just adds nothing to the conversation aside from rehashing some tired old buzzwords & phrases...

One expects this level of work from its team. The amazing educators involved in this film deserve kudos for perseverence and dedication to the children. That's the key to the effectiveness, ya'll, That's the key.

With respect, your daughters are either blinded by the education system which is now out of date and mismatched to the real world, or most probably they're part of the new world but are jumping through the educational hoops because society still demands outmoded exam results.

You've missed the point. Of course it's scripted - they wrote the script and performed it. The message is deadly accurate. They are correct.

This video is stunning, brilliant and very very accurate. Every education system in the world is based on the curriculum devised by the Victorians for an industrial world. We don't live in that world any more! Schools are out of date and are damaging a whole generation of students. Enlightened educationalists are beginning to speak of a forthcoming crisis as kids disengage in high numbers. Well done all of you. Fantastic film will do a lot of good. You may even change the world.

your students are my new role models:)