The Lottery | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at t | dG1feEpUSG5NT05lWlE

Transcript

00:00The problem is not the parents, the problem is not the children, the problem is a system that protects academic failure.

00:19Parents are literally fleeing their zoned schools as they vie for seats in charter schools.

00:27A child's destiny should not be determined on the pull of a draw.

00:34Every year we wait to offer parents the choices they deserve is a year in which children's futures are destroyed.

00:43A hundred percent of our children face the exam.

00:47These charter schools do not have enough space to take care of all the people who want to be there.

00:52The United Federation of Teachers is trying to halt the progress and put the interests of adults above the interests of children.

01:00Y'all are not welcome here! We will not welcome you here!

01:03We're trying to really transform somebody's life and that is not an easy thing to do.

01:07Look at these children. They want to become doctors. They want to become maybe the next president.

01:12I am Barack Obama.

01:15You look a little bit like him in that suit.

01:17Y'all feel a lot like him.

01:19Every one of us wrote the leadership and said,

01:22Look, I demand that you take a stand on education.

01:25We would make this a better country for all of our children.

01:28You got everybody in Hollywood tonight, huh?

01:31What can I do? I just wait for the lotto.

01:35You can see a lot of hope in a lot of parents' eyes.

01:42I know this is the moment you've all been waiting for.

01:45Here we go!