The 50th Percentile: Keeping American students average

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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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 ...

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...

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...

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 rea...

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.&...

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 st...

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 conf...

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 admini...

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 ...

I have two magnificent ideas for Reality TV programs that would showcase what American education could be, if centered on teaching and learning. Why Reality TV? Does it belong in education? A decade ago I would have said no. However, with the continual decline of American education, due to the non-teachers and crooks who dictate what, how, and when things are taught in America's classrooms; Reality TV just may save t...

I started The 50th Percentile because it's time American parents, taxpayers, and young persons (considering entering the teaching profession), know exactly what they are up against and exactly what they're paying for. The caliber of person who is in education leadership is directly related to the caliber of education in America's K-12 classrooms. The way that education leadership treats its teachers, is exactly how it treats its st...