The 50th Percentile: Keeping American students average
You have listened to everyone else. I now invite you to listen to me; one of the only education experts in America -- an ACTUAL classroom teacher
Episodes
February 3, 2019 • 30 mins
Listen in as Chef Z explains his brief, but very interesting tenure as a culinary teacher with the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). What brought him in - what drove him out?
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December 8, 2018 • 33 mins
Listen in as Elizabeth Romero discusses her teaching position at Whittier Adult School, and what she's learned over the years, concerning the importance of vocational education in American schools.
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December 3, 2018 • 44 mins
Mr. Duane Swacker, a retired high school teacher, wrote a book titled, Infidelity to Truth: Education Malpractice in American Public Education. His book discusses, in part, unethical practices involved in education testing. He also explains the change in education leadership from one centered on open communication, to authoritative, top-down business model that leads through fear. What will it take to save our students from the cro...
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November 24, 2018 • 36 mins
I am so excited to introduce my first guest speaker, Dr. Diann James, Dean of International Technical Female College at Al Nammas, Saudi Arabia. Listen in on this fascinating woman as she discusses life as a free-spirited, educated, American woman, who just happens to head a college in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For more information on teaching in Saudi Arabia NM_Diann.James@staff.coemf.edu.sa
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November 7, 2018 • 19 mins
This is a continuation of Podcast #21, in which I share excerpts from my new book, "Autobiography of An American Teacher". This episode discusses the physical and sexual abuse of American teachers and the impact abuse has on teachers and students. Read my new book and find out where your tax money goes and the real goals of American education leadership. Believe me, it's not pretty. Link to eBook and paperback editions
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October 31, 2018 • 9 mins
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J2TQXZ5/ After years of lies, harassment, bullying, and abuse I have a voice. The voice of an American teacher, because I can now add PUBLISHED AUTHOR to my resume. On October 4, 2018, my book, "Autobiography of An American Teacher", was published via Kindle.The paperback edition is scheduled to be hot on November 12th. After that time, readers should be able to leave comments and reviews on Amazon and ...
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September 16, 2018 • 1 min
At the beginning of every school year, nothing, and I mean NOTHING is in working order. Why should this year be any different? The cause: incompetent administrators and school support - time to stop wasting tax dollars on them. Hold these persons to the same standards as American teachers.
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This podcast will be an addition to an earlier podcast in which I discussed the horrific level of leadership from those leading education, who have no actual experience (Podcast #4: The Broad Superintendent Academy: 25 days and you too can be a district superintendent. This continuation will explain how a school system, DoDEA, is probably on the cusp of ruin, because it is managed by Thomas Brady, a man who seemingly has no K-12 cl...
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April 27, 2018 • 28 mins
Data-driven and research-based are fairly new buzzwords that education leadership has added to the education vocabulary arsenal. Of course data and research have always been used in education. However, today those are superficial selling points instead of appropriately applied resources. This podcast discusses how education leadership manipulates numbers in order to sell its common conformity education programs.
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April 27, 2018 • 20 mins
This podcast will discuss how education leadership enforces common conformity in American schools. From school pledges to teacher evaluations--creativity and individuality are being chipped away.
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November 26, 2017 • 25 mins
This podcast will discuss several incidents in which a principal hurt students in order to hurt a teacher. It will discuss the lengths today's common conformity education administrators are willing to go, in order to shut down true teacher talent, including harming teachers professionally and alleged poisoning. Yes, I believe Principal Gibson may have tried to murder me. As always, the emphasis must be placed on the effects today's...
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October 2, 2017 • 23 mins
In this podcast, I provide 11 survival tips for great American teachers. Examples include ways to get over on your criticizers and parents. Ways to get your administrators to pay for classroom snacks. Ways to get your principal to provide funds for spare student apparel, instead of using your own money. The long term effects of paying for your own classroom resources. What the district offices don't want you to know about their spe...
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September 27, 2017 • 17 mins
This podcasts discusses the career benefits of being the first American politician to stand up for great American teachers. Along with the benefits outlined in this podcast -- I also hand you your first case of unethical practices by education leadership -- a school system that has allegedly stolen close to $36 million from its teachers. That's just the tip of the iceberg. If education leadership finds nothing wrong with stealing m...
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September 24, 2017 • 13 mins
This podcast is based on an online article entitled Why Teachers Suck. It was published in June 2017 by Bert Faulks. Basically, it is an article written by an ex-teacher who is arguing with his friend Tim, because Tim believes that America is a mess because teachers suck. I will let you read the article at your leisure because I want to focus on the comments left by three of the readers. These comments beautifully sum up American t...
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September 14, 2017 • 25 mins
Incompetents get hired, retained and promoted in American education because they are key to the mediocrity goals of education leadership. These are the proverbial yes-people; the head bobbers who will say and do anything their bosses require - no matter what. They don't stir the pot, they do not question, and most importantly -- they will never examine any new mandate. They will accept what they are told because they are lemmings.
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August 8, 2017 • 13 mins
I would bet my life savings that vouchers and common conformity education programs were primarily designed by white people with financial means. These puppets are simply pawns, because the very top echelon of education is pulling their strings. This is a very wealthy oligarchy that wants to make sure there is another generation of mediocrity, it can employ to work and consume all the products that add zeros to the bank statements o...
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July 31, 2017 • 36 mins
Several colleagues of mine have asked me if I'm afraid to blow the whistle. They worry about my continued employment because we all know that education leadership is not going to allow some lowly teacher to rain on their profitable scams. Several years ago I would have agreed with them. However, after too many years of witnessing various atrocities, and feeling the effects of the types of persons hired to implement common conformit...
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July 19, 2017 • 11 mins
What happens when the good old boys are promoted into school administration? How do they affect the careers of their female staff and the education of female students? Although the answers are probably obvious, I will still provide an anecdote or two about my experiences working under the good old boys. Listen in as I discuss the assistant principal who referred to female teachers as bitches and nigg*&$. The story of the administra...
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July 12, 2017 • 18 mins
There is a new breed of administrator and teacher being hired for the sole purpose of implementing common conformity education programs -- like Common Core and College and Career Readiness. These newbies are not focused on improving teaching and learning, they are focused on making sure their schools are conforming to the demands of these inappropriate education programs. What this will eventually mean for American schools, is the ...
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July 10, 2017 • 24 mins
This is the best metaphor I can think of to describe what it's like when great American teachers are forced to work within the confines of slow car education leadership. Creative, innovative, intelligent teachers unable to bypass their systems' mediocrity. This means their students are forced to slow down too -- all because education leadership doesn't have the ability to put peddle to metal.
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