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Over and over again this week, you've heard it -- from the president to the mayor, from the small screen to the big screen -- our schools are broken and need to be fixed.

"I believe the country is reaching a tipping point in terms of recognizing the severity of this problem and demanding action," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The poster person for the reform movement is Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children's Zone, a system of social supports, programs and charter schools. This week, Bloomberg called him the Most Important New Yorker. Last week, President Barack Obama began replicating the Children's Zone nationally. Canada also stars in the much hyped documentary at the center of all this chatter on school reform, "Waiting for Superman," yet he told us he's skeptical whether the talk will lead to any real change.

"When I go and meet with schools and principals and teachers, there's no sense of panic," Canada said.

A lot of the blame for bad schools is being directed at the teachers unions. In "Waiting for Superman," unions are called the biggest menace to education reform.

Either the kids are getting stupider every year or something is wrong in the education system.

"I thought it was a very well done, very powerful film," Bloomberg said.

"Oh, it's heartbreaking. And when you see these parents in the film, you are reminded that, I don't care what people's income levels are, you know, their stake in their kids, their wanting desperately to make sure their kids are able to succeed is so powerful," Obama said.

Supporters hope it's a catalyst for a movement. The film credits are filled with tips for taking action. Exiting moviegoers are handed pamphlets -- first from the studio and then from an advocacy organization, Education Reform Now. They're told the steps are simple -- sign-up for email alerts, donate to classrooms, and lobby for more charter schools. But for Canada it's even more basic -- fire bad teachers.

"There's only one lever we have. It's our teachers. They’re the ones in the classrooms," Canada said.

Teachers in New York and across the country have organized boycotts of waiting for Superman. UFT President Michael Mulgrew dismisses it as a Hollywood film with Hollywood solutions. And national union president Randi Weingarten has been criticizing the documentary for weeks.

"The problem with the movie is that it's not balanced. Meaning that the only schools that are working are charter schools and all you have to do is get rid of a few bad teachers," Weingarten said.

Whether all this attention on failing schools creates a lasting anti-union backlash remains to be seen.