MarvinKilbourne

In this video I explain how the Social Security Administration screws teachers out of their Social Security benefits. They use something called the Windfall Elimination Provision to limit the benefits paid to retired teachers. They screw teachers out of a portion of the Social Security payment owed them. There is absolutely nothing fair or decent about it. There have been attempts in the past to do away with the Windfall Elimination Provision, to no avail. This is just another example of how little our government values this nation's teachers.

There is a movement nationwide to give teachers additional "stress days" off, on top of all the vacation/holiday days teachers already have. This is happening because we have too many wimpy, snowflake teachers in the classroom. My advice to any teacher who feels a need to take "stress days" off, to deal with their fragile mental health, is to get out of public education and find another job that you can handle. The kids deserve better.

This video is about Kamala Harris, the worst VP this country has ever had. She is unqualified for the job, except for satisfying the only criteria Biden's handlers had; that the VP be a woman of color. Well, she is that. And only that. She has refused to do the job. She has admitted she is not prepared for the job. She has resorted to claiming sexism and racism, rather than actually trying to do the job she was assigned. It is time for her to resign. NOW!!

This video is about former Tyler Legacy High School Principal Dan Crawford. In June of 2021 police arrived at Crawford's home and found evidence of a possible fight between Crawford and his wife. They also found a baggie of a white, powdery substance that later tested positive for cocaine. Crawford is proof of why we need much higher standards for those working in public education, especially at the administrative level.

This video is about a teacher that truthfully admitted that homosexuality is a sin, and about the mother and daughter that were offended by the teacher's comment. This occurs in the small town of Frederick, Oklahoma, a place I actually lived in about forty years ago. The events in the video happened last school year.

This is the 25th, and final, video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. I explain everything that led me to retire when I did. I also explain how an angry Facebook mob attacked me for no real reason, and tried to hurt me. Fortunately, they failed. Unfortunately, many people are quick to believe anything and everything they hear or read, even lies. I forgot to mention this in the video, but the lies spread about me motivated a few awful people to send me death threats. Even, after a year, some of these losers still send me hateful messages once in a while. Craziness.

This is the 24th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. This one is about my fifth year at Tatum High School, in Tatum, TX. This was the year that I was finally getting tired of all the BS related to public education, and with the fools running public education. I started seriously considering my retirement options and plans. The video is long, 47 minutes. So, if you watch the whole thing, thank you very much and God bless you.

This is the 23rd video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. This is part 2 of my series on Tatum HS, which mostly covers my 3rd and 4th years there. My first two years I worked for some pretty good leadership. Starting my 3rd year, not so much.

This is the 22nd video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. After a rocky start, Tatum High School turned out to be the high point of my teaching career. I was fortunate to work for a great principal, who was both a great leader and a great principal. Tatum was a great place to work. Well, for the first two years anyway.

This is the 21st video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Arp is just a little Podunk town in East Texas. I enjoyed teaching there, but had the misfortune of working for the dumbest man, and by far the dumbest principal, I have ever met. This man was a perfect example of why public education needs a serious overhaul, especially in the area of administration. Fools should not be allowed to run our schools. But, too often, they do.

This is the 19th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Collins Middle School was by far the worst job experience, of any kind, in my life. Collins is in Lake Worth, TX, and it didn't take me long to start calling it Lake Worthless. I was the fourth math teacher they had hired for that position that school year. The school sucked. Most of the kids were rotten and disrespectful. The faculty was unappreciated and unhappy. The administration was unqualified and horrible. It was a truly rotten place.

This is the 20th video in my series on public education and my experiences as a teacher. Henderson High School was the most academically inbred school I worked in. Around half of all the teachers had been Henderson High School graduates. But I loved it there, and would have loved to spend the rest of my career there. However, the administration screwed me out of my teaching job in order to create yet another coaching position. As I've said before, in public education, athletics takes precedence over academics. Coaches (especially football coaches) are revered, for some strange reason, while real teachers get very little respect.

This is the 18th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. This one is about my experience at Longview High School in 2010. Basically, Longview is just one of the many school districts that screwed me over during my career. But this one really takes the cake.

This is the 17th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Chandler Intermediate School was a rotten little place ran by a rotten, lying principal. Brownsboro itself was a rotten district. It was a cliquish school district, and I was not made to feel welcome there. This video is about some of my experiences there.

This is the 16th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Hulcy Middle School was one of the inner-city schools I taught at. In this video, I share some of what I experienced at Hulcy. My opinion is that, while public education isn't really designed for student academic success, inner-city schools are definitely designed for failure. I witnessed this first hand.

This is the 15th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Hulcy Middle School is the most violent, lowest-performing of the 38 Dallas middle schools. At least it was while I was there. But I really enjoyed teaching in this challenging school. I will never forget some of the great experiences I had there, and the great kids. However, it was the first, and only, time I ever experienced racism or discrimination against myself, or my race, in my life. And it wasn't from my students.

This is the 14th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. This one is about a social studies position I accepted with a Dallas inner-city school, and my experiences there. Some of the bad things I experienced would be repeated at several other schools I worked at during my career. No organization should treat its employees the way public education treats its teachers. The fact that half of all new teachers quit the profession within the first three years should be enough for public education to clean up its act.

This is the 13th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. This story takes place in 2005, two years after I completed my teacher certification, and still not finding employment. I accepted a horrible position with Keithville Middle School, which ended up being the one and only full time teaching position I would ever be offered in Louisiana. One small correction. I mention that my last day with Tatum High School was the last day of February, 2020. I misspoke. It was actually the last day of September, 2020. The point remains, however. My position, as of the date of this recording, has still not been filled, leaving my former students without a full time certified high school math teacher. That public school administrators and school boards are allowed to get away with this is truly disgusting. Legitimate "professions" don't operate this way.

This is the 12th video in my series on public education, and my 15 years as a teacher. Louisiana is arguably the most corrupt state in the union, and this is also true with how the state handles public education and the hiring of teachers. I spent three years as a fully certified social studies teacher, looking for a teaching position in Louisiana, with no luck. Louisiana truly sucks.

This is the 11th video in my series about public education and my 15 years as a teacher. I think the best way for me to explain my working life is by saying I just stumbled along from one job to another. I never had any real plans, or any dream job. As a child, there was never anything I wanted to be when I grew up. My working life just kind of happened to me. But I have no regrets in the way my life has played out.

This is the 10th video in my series on public education and my 15 years in the profession. This one is about how I think public education can be improved in the area of teachers, administrators, school boards, and pay. I try to keep my videos under 15 minutes, but this one clocks in at over 21 minutes. So, if you watch the whole thing, thank you and God bless you.

This is the 9th video in my series on public education and my 15 years in the profession. Public School administrators are the main problem with public education. They are very low-qualified, ill-equipped people, while at the same time being pompous and arrogant, and are in no way capable of true leadership. These unimpressive, uninspiring people are also the main reason teachers leave the profession.

This is the 8th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. If you are looking for a job where you will be recognized for your work, worth, or being an excellent employee, don't join the ranks of public education. Public education is probably the worst profession in the world, when it comes to recognizing its employees. Public school administrators, in addition to being the worst so-called "leaders" in the world, are either too stupid or too lazy to recognize their best teachers.

This is the 7th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. Teachers are paid horribly for all that they do, while school administrators get rich for doing next to nothing. It is an awful system that will most likely never get much better. We should all be very thankful that there are people willing to teach the children, for very low pay and little to no appreciation.

This is the 6th video in my series on public education and my 15 years as a teacher. The probationary teacher contract is one of the most corrupt and misused aspects of public education, requiring new teachers to remain in a probationary status for at least three years. It is used to get rid of good teachers, without cause.