Decisive battle? It’s up to you.

As:
• the senior role models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters;
• And as stewards of hundreds of millions of tax dollars;
• And as public servants; who are required as an essential term of their in-servitude, to subject themselves to honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct.

The leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools must hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct.

Accountability to a standard requires; a standard and a system that provides for accountability to that standard.

A meaningful standard will be of carefully chosen words that represent the principle. The words will be chosen by the public; not by the public servant

Honest accountability means that, on the one side you have lawyers who will pervert words like honor, and courage, and character in order to allow their clients to escape the consequences of misconduct. On the other side you have the lawyers who represent the people; and who will create a system that provides accountability as defined by public interests. They will be the people’s champions.

And we will do battle. And we will defend the line that separates us. And we will no longer equivocate around “honest accountability”.

Let us not forget that each of us is a role model. And if as a role model we cannot model perfection; we must at the very least, model accountability for our imperfections.

A principle without a defense, a principle without people who will make sacrifices in its defense; means nothing. It serves no function. All principles great and mean, are equally worthless. …if no one will defend them. Talk, great or mean, is just talk. It is never anything more than talk.

Some people will stand up for what they believe in; some will not.

Like exactly every other issue, you come to a fork in the road. You can travel the path to talk is cheap. Or you can take the path to do something.

If enough people are willing to do something, anything can be done. … if you have enough people. … actually willing to do something.

Like Stonehenge.

What could be a decisive battle takes place in less than two days.

The window will open at 4:59 pm, Wednesday afternoon. The window will close about ten minutes later.

If you were there, you were there. If you weren’t, you weren’t; and it doesn’t matter why.

If you can’t go, you can email someone; or everyone. Out of town stakeholders have dues just like the locals whose principles are under attack.

There is really only one proof of commitment to a principle; willing sacrifice in defense of the principle.

Or, honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct.