I'm wondering why I was so anxious to see Waiting For Superman, a documentary about the state of education in our country. It's not pretty. In fact, it's downright disgusting. I knew it was bad in some areas. I was in denial about how bad it is all over.

It would be nice to think Waiting for Superman is a movie about someone else's children, children we would not see in our grocery store or on the playground near our home. However, chew on this:

• 21 students leave school on any given day in Maine.
• Nearly 500 members of Greater Portland's class of 2007 did not graduate with their classmates (18%)
635 Greater Portland fourth-graders (24%) did not meet or partially meet state reading standards in 2008-2009.