'Waiting for Superman' Not Just Full of Lies, It Also Has a Fake Scene

Not only are the facts and premise of the documentary Waiting for Superman not at all right, but now we learn that at least one scene was staged for the film. This touching scene from the documentary (the overall storyline of which is: poor people desperately yearning to get into charter and private schools), in which a mother first tours the Harlem Success Academy and oohs and ahs, was actually staged after her child was rejected. Here’s the director, Davis Guggenheim, telling the Times about that: “So that scene is real; her reaction, her talking to kids touring the school, is how she would play it.” So that… scene… is real… it’s how she would play it. That’s remarkable!