Most Likely To Succeed
Sundance is quite the phenomenon here, in Park City, Utah. The traffic is awful the people are crazy, but the movies are great.
We attended the movie Most Likely To Succeed and as you know Sundance Movies can be a hit or a miss. Well this was a hit. The movie premiered on Sunday, January 25th, 2015. The whole theater was full, not one seat was open. As the movie was playing, not a sound was made.
The movie drew us in right from the start and did not let us go until the credits started rolling. The Q&A was amazing and the whole stage was filled up with an army of cinematographers, family, directors, teachers, producers and so many more. now what is this movie about you may ask? School.
Most Likely To Succeed explained how college degrees used to mean guaranteed employment in your future, but that now more than half of new college graduates were unable to find a job. Greg Whiteley, director of the movie, took matters into his own hands and located that the problem was not in our economy, but in our education system. This system was created during the Industrial Age, and has changed little since. With the internet being only a click away, and workspaces requiring skills with collaboration and critical thinking, the United States’ education system is now ineffective and outdated.
Throughout the movie, it follows students, parents, and teachers from High Tech High, a charter school in San Diego that has replaced standardized tests and compartment subjects with project-based learning and a student-focused curriculum. Over the two and a half years of filming, directors and producers wanted to see if this new system could reawaken the love of learning, and offer a great shift if the education we know of today.
The movie was overall inspiring and entertaining to watch but most of all it made you think and want to help. The thing about High Tech High is 48% of the students who attend are below the poverty line. After finishing high school, 98% of all the students who attended High Tech High graduated from college. The average from other high schools ranges in the 60%s . The difference is extraordinary and makes you wonder whatever they are doing at High Tech High is working. As students we look at school like this and want to go. Its more fun, engaging, teaches you life skills, cool teachers and so much more. The United States school system was created in the 1860’s, almost 200 years ago. It is time to chance and that was the message of the movie.
This new curriculum is different, but definitely seems to be working in more than one way. Will there be a change to education systems everywhere? We just have to wait and see.
By: Emma and Corrine
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