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1 1 CriticsCritics onon USUS PublicPublic EducationEducation Right from start the new documentary Waiting for Superman has a point of view and doesn t hold back You wake up every morning and you know kids are getting a really crappy education right now said DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee So you think most kids are getting a crappy education right now I don t think they are I know they are It is a harsh and unflattering look at the state of public education in America It follows five schoolchildren desperate to go to better schools But with limited openings their futures depend on luck For these kids the only chance to go to a great school depends on whether their number is picked in a lottery It could be the most talked about documentary since An Inconvenient Truth perhaps because they share the same director Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim Experts will say the movie is pro this or anti this but parents who see the movie will say I just want a great school for my kid Guggenheim said He told Katie Couric he hopes his film will provoke action That s what this movie is a wake up call Guggenheim said It s not working for every kid Guggenheim features Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children s Zone who s shown it s possible to create great schools even in poor neighborhoods This week the Department of Education announced grants to replicate his success in twenty more cities We can actually fix this Canada said But critics of the movie like Bronx principal Barbara Freeman say it unfairly targets public schools their teachers and unions I thought it was a little slanted because I think there are a lot of great public schools with great teachers great administrators and great families Freeman said None of the educators we spoke with today thought that the status quo was working They agreed on what s at stake helping kids to realize their dreams Michelle Miller CBS News New York 2 2 FromFrom HomelessHomeless to to HarvardHarvard Everyone has baggage but Lalita Booth s is heavier than most CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports Booth can laugh now but as a young teen she nearly destroyed her life Raised in Ashville N C the rebellious teen says her problems all began when her parents divorced and she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance That led to substance abuse staying out all night long and running away Booth said By the time she was 18 she d been legally emancipated from her parents married and had a baby When my ex joined the Army I was responsible for taking care of myself with only a GED and no relevant job skills Booth said Penniless and living out of a car she gave up her son Kieren to his father s parents I would cry myself to sleep because I missed him so much Booth said That s when she grew up She enrolled in a community college then transferred to a four year university An honors student Booth s inspiring story captured headlines By then she learned to really dream big and another door opened Booth was accepted to one of the most elite and the oldest of the Ivy Leagues Harvard University The 29 year old Booth is earning a Master s degree in business and public policy It s an amazing feeling Booth said She financed her education through 20 scholarships totaling more than half a million dollars Now she spends her time on Capitol Hill where she lobbies her aid for single mothers Lalita is remarried and has her son back She ll tell you whatever baggage she once carried seems a lot lighter now 3 3 HowHow to to DealDeal withwith Over parentingOver parenting Madeline Levine You know parents were never that involved in their children s lives They were busy making a living or doing other things Now the family has become child centriccentric and so everything is really devoted to the cultivating and the care and feeding of the children in the family with the result that I think there s a fair amount of over parenting I began noticing that things really were quite different probably about a decade ago I ve been a clinical psychologist now for about 28 years and historically like sort of knowing a child who s depressed that was a pretty easy diagnosis Were they tired Were they not interested in things Were they giving stuff away Were they teary And I started having kids who looked very different than that So in a book called the Price For Privilege that I wrote about six years ago it opens with a young lady who comes in looks great for all the world you know Hello Dr Levine It s a pleasure to meet you I mean I ve been practicing long enough to know it s never a pleasure to meet a shrink when you re 16 But after all the niceties you know she rolls up her arm her sleeve and she shows me she s taken a razorrazor and cut the word empty into her arm And she sort of became iconic for me She was the kid who looks good and doesn t really have much of a sense of self feels empty And so I got interested I started talking to other mental health professionals They were kind of seeing the same thing with this upswing in parenting that was extremely involved and intensiveintensive And it s like well how come these kids are doing poorly because historically parental involvement s a protective factor We want parents to be involved But we don t want them to be over involved because when they re over involved like this girl stuff isn t being developed internally It s coming from the outside You re doing so well you re so smart you re a genius You know this kind of stuff And it doesn t allow a space in which kids can start craftingcrafting a sense of who they are internally And that s the protection against feelings of emptiness What I define over parenting as is when you do what your child can already do So if your child already knows how to write don t hover over their work because all you do is get in the way of them feeling competentcompetent and confident which leads to self esteem The second part of over parenting is doing what your children can almost do Like don t do that Let them have the opportunity to try in the same way that we allow a toddlertoddler to take a few steps and fall down and take a few steps and fall down And we don t yell at that and we don t say You re going to be flipping burgers for the rest of your life or folding shirts at Forever 21 We sort of get that the toddler has to fall and fall in order to master the art of walking And it s the same thing all throughout development but we re very quick we feel the stakes are higher when kids are older We argue about the B with the teacher maybe it should ve been an A It s a bad idea So don t do what your child can almost do because that s the arena in which they actually grow The most toxic part of over parenting I think is when we confuse our own needs with our children s needs And that s the we re going to Harvard I had a dad and the kid in my office and they re sitting together The kid s a really bright kid he s going to go to some you know prestigious college and the father s sitting very very quietly until the kid gets to I d like to go to Harvard at which point the dad jumps up and says There s a school I would give my left testicle to get my son in to And aside from the fact that it s bad form actually it s the wrong thing to do because it s not about the kid And so the kid s got a million things he s got to worry about his grades and his girlfriend and his body and where he s going to school and what he wants to be and what his values and he doesn t have to worry about dad s gonads I mean that s just taking him off track And I think that s the most toxic part of over parenting But those are the three things doing what your kid can do can almost do and not being able to tell the difference between your needs and your child s 4 4 TheThe CaseCase againstagainst Over parentingOver parenting We re looking at over parenting Of course we want our kids to be well rounded but there s a growing backlash against over scheduling them In fact T addresses the controversy in an article by Nancy Gibbs who is Time s editor at large here with contributing psychologist Dr Gail Saltz Good to see both of you Good morning Good to be here Nancy in this article you said this has been buildingbuilding But with the economic downturn it s come to a head How so Well you know parenting is always a pendulum So maybe we were due after 20 years of excess to have a great big swoop I think already teachers have been warning parents this is harmful for kids Researchers were saying things we thought were good for kids like maybe the Baby Einstein tapes weren t But then the recession hits and we re all downshifting and downsizing and a third of parents said they were dropping extracurricular activities for kids and the twisttwist is a lot of them liked it like it felt like simplifying their family life restoredrestored some balance to it and maybe that was something that was overdue There s more lessons in the case of less is more Gail I definitely think so for two reasons One kids need play free creativecreative time to be thinkers to learn how to solve problems for themselves And if you ve constantly scheduled them up That s not really possible The other thing is that I think parents are starting to realize that when you look out how do you build the most important thing in a child which is resilience Right If you don t ever let them fall down if they never get to make a mistake if they never experienceexperience a bump in the road how are they expected to build coping skills or resilience Or they don t get to take responsibility for it Exactly And even if you re doing so much for them they can t show that creativity or that resourcefulnessresourcefulness Problem solving exactly So how do you let go though I mean as parents I mean I think our parents were very good at letting go The old you know go outside I want to see you until the street lights come on I think one thing for parents to know is letting go of your kids is not the same thing as letting them down That sometimes the best thing you can do for them is leave them alone This is so against the message I think that our generation of parents has received We ve been taught that parenting is sort of a form of product development and that we have to shape and mold our children in order to competecompete in this global economy The idea that actually the best thing we can do for them sometimes is just to back off takes a certain kind of parental disciplinediscipline because we always want to be in there smoothing the way protecting them from disappointment and failure And I think this is why this conversation is so important is to realize that there s a price that they pay for our over protectiveness Gail when do we realize as a parent what are the warning signs that we re too overprotective I think if you look around and see that first of all your child has constantly got some planned something going on so they re not having that free time If you look around and say actually my child has never made a mistake has never really failed nothing really major you know or even moderately happened And i think that if your child seems anxious whenever you re not around organizing whatever s going on and if you say why don t you go ahead and take care of x and your child seems really uncomfortable and anxious about that it means they haven t had any practice and that you really need to let them have that I remember my daughter finally saying Daddy I don t have any relaxing time and I thought you know what maybe I should be listening to my kid Right absolutely I remember actually making the mistake when I was younger that my parents didn t bail me out and I remember coming back to them later and saying thank you for letting me make my own mistake Wow Because it was really I realized it was pivotal It is when you become an independent person you have to be able to look back and say well I got through that and if you don t have any of those then how are you supposed to do that when the bigger real things and they will come along because life can t be controlled Nancy Gibbs Dr Gail Saltz thank you so much interesting things We ve got to think about this coming up next Chelsea Clinton 5 5 animalanimal crueltycruelty onon cowscows Now something to think about the next time we all open the fridgefridge and see the milk we all love or one of those ads about the happy cows Brian Ross is back with us again He has hiddenhidden camera footage I warn some of it was graphic of what may be behind we all see The marketing campaign for milk has been masterfulmasterful Celebrities with white moustaches Hi Hi How are you doing I love it here An animated cow talking about beautiful surroundingssurroundings that make them so happy Happy cows come from California But the reality is no where near what s happy According to animal rights groups which has gone undercoverundercover to record what they say they found across the country unhealthy cows in filthy conditions often subject to inhumane abuse These animals are really treated as milk producing machines The Dairy Association says no good farmer can toleratetolerate mistreatment of animals The humane treatmenttreatment of cows keeping cows as comfortable as possible definitely has an impactimpact on milk quality At the heart of the problem according to animal rights groups are the huge operations they call factory farms such as this one in upstate New York For maximum efficiencyefficiency some 5000 cows here are never allowed outside but spend every day of their life inside giant manure filled barns kept perpetually pregnant so they keep producing milk Big farm operators say such large scale operations are necessary so they can afford latest machines and the staff to get the most out of the cows with the highest quality and the lowest price They call you a factory farm Not really care about animals I think they can be farther from the truth Well our animals are criticallycritically important to our well being So we work hard to treat them well What s most shocking in the news in the common industry practice what s called tail docking The end of cow s tail cut off so it won t interfere with milking machines done here without painkillers which we won t show in its entirety Cows look like in pain when the tail is cut off But cows may appear that way But it is not I guess I can t speak for the cow And even the industry says it is the outrageousoutrageous practice without painkillers Californians ban the practice last year A similar bill introduced this month in the New York legislature Just the question got milk is now becoming Diane how did you get that milk 6 6 Sex alteredSex altered fishfish The fish are biting on Lake Pepin this fall good news for Minnesota fishing guide Loren Waalkens We are not going to call it a big one but just a small one A small mouth bass to be exact and along with their large mouth cousins are big business fish It s hooked anglers at tournaments as hyped as the Super Bowl And it is also a fish of special value to researchers who suspectsuspect it may tell us something alarming about our water which brings us to Columbia Missouri and these ponds Here the U S Geological Survey is investigating why so many males in the pond show female characteristicscharacteristics Because it s a male you are seeing sperm here But oddly you are also seeing very small undeveloped eggs said the biologist Diana Papoulias And that s abnormality We do not expect to see eggs in a male Abnormal but increasingly common In the upper Mississippi River where Loren Waalkens fishes More than 70 percent of male small mouth bass had female In South Carolina s Pee Dee River the ratio was even higher nine out of the ten And at one section of Potomac River near Washington every small mouth bass has the same condition In fact a recent USGS study found the phenomenonphenomenon in virtually every watershed in the country The suspicion is that hormone disruptingdisrupting chemicals in the water pesticidespesticides pharmaceuticals including birth control pills may be promptingprompting the feminization of the fish And that matters because in controlled experiments which duplicated the chemicals found in U S rivers entire populations of fish simply collapsed collapsed unable to spawn What s more tens of millions of Americans get their drinking water from the rivers An estimated 18 million from the Mississippi River alone Make me wonder what else could be affected here Waalkens wonders if his belovedbeloved bass could be the proverbial canary in the coal mine Are there other species and other types of animals that this may be occurring in You know there s a lot of unanswered questions Those questions answers may lie somewhere beneath the surface of the water we drink 7 7 AlertAlert dogsdogs Finally tonight we all know dogs can be trained to do amazing things but playing doctor NBC s Jill Rappaport with a story of medical alert dogs and how they are saving lives Reporter KK and her dog JJ are inseparable but JJ is more than just a pet barking good girl She s trained to be an alert and protect KK The 7 year old has a rare disease called mastocytosis which causes dizziness drop in blood pressure and a myriad of other symptoms that mimic a severe allergic reaction When KK starts to have a reaction JJ smells the chemical reaction and will alert us Reporter JJ never leaves her side even at school We have one extra person one extra thing looking after KK and her senses are well beyond what we are capable of Reporter medical alert or service dogs are used to detect everything from cancer to diabetes like with KK s friend Diane She lets me know by touching my leg with her nose if my blood sugar is too low or is getting the too high You have animals that can sense things from so far away that we have no idea they are going on Reporter the canine sense goes far beyond a human s reach This fur angel saved your life Absolutely I had a seizure Reporter Curtis and his partner J