'Waiting for Superman' kids get field trip of lifetime

VIDEO - The five kids are dazzled by where this movie has taken them, and what they have done for a cause...

In the documentary film “Waiting for Superman,” the five kids, Daisy, Bianca, Anthony, Francisco and Emily helped turn up the heat in the national debate about education reform. Now they are connected to a world they never imagined: they’ve been on the red carpet for the movie premiere, they’re the cover kids on this weekend’s parade, and now they got an invite to a world famous house… The White House.

“Nervous, happy, excited, unexplainable” was what one of the kids, Daisy, felt about having the opportunity to meet the president.

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“I’m very confident that you guys will succeed” President Obama told them, “But it’s gotta come from you.”

The five kids are dazzled by where this movie has taken them, and what they have done for a cause.

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