Thursday, December 07, 2006

Why do I keep asking the same question over and over?

I have been asking this question since 1994; the year I was trained in Character Counts.

It is my absolute conviction that we must raise the next generation of adults to embrace accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct. It is the principle we illustrate when we tell children about George Washington and the cherry tree.

The principle cannot be taught by the story alone; it must be taught by our personal example as well. Or our children will learn from a different example; dodging accountability.

The Albuquerque Public Schools senior administration and board members are not accountable to any meaningful standard of conduct; even the law.

Prove it, you say.

They have never denied it. Prove it to yourself; ask any senior administrator or board member to show you the record that they are accountable to any standard.

The only thing that they have to show is a record of dodging accountability; a record of spending enormous amounts of money on lawyers whose goal is to forestall, forever, accountability even to the law.

In the offices of Modrall are two sheets of paper. Between them they are evidence of perjury; a fourth degree felony.

The APS senior administrator, who perjured himself, has never been held accountable for his misconduct.

His immunity, and immunity for other senior administrators and board members, was purchased with public money; unwitting taxpayer support for education.

The Leadership of the APS has the will and the wherewithal to dodge accountability even to the law.

Show this post to anyone in APS. Ask them to deny any part of it.

They won’t. They will stonewall.

I keep asking the question because unless and until they answer it; nothing will ever change.

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