what question can be asked?

is has been suggested that my agenda, honest accountability in the leadership of the aps, is better served by questioning than confronting.

at the risk of over simplifying, the question seems to be, if we concede that the "system is broken"; can the system be the tool that fixes the the system?

while the system has listened and responded to some questions; they are not required to listen or respond as a matter of policy. which means if asked a question that they do not want to answer; they can simply ignore it. that is why the public forum is no longer on the public record.

it can no longer be proved (on the record) that they have been asked a dozen times at public forums, (the only venue of petition that was on the record), to explain or defend their decision to strike the following from their own code of conduct.

in no case shall the standard for adults be lower than the standard for students.

how can it be acceptable that they (public servants all) can simply refuse to answer questions about what they have done (their public service)?

I no longer believe that asking questions is effectual. first it must be established that they have to answer.

first; they must be accountable, even against their will, to a code of conduct that requires them to tell the truth.

the student standard of conduct requires truth telling. they are taught that their character counts, and that their character depends upon their telling the truth. it is precisely why among the first stories that we tell our children is the story about george washington and the cherry tree. the first thing we teach our children is that they are to hold themselves accountable for their conduct. and accountable to a higher standard of conduct at that.

what importance do we want to put on role modeling; on leading by personal example?

is it ethical for the leadership of the aps to simply abdicate their role modeling obligations?

is it acceptable?

what question can be asked of whom, that will compel anyone to defend what has been done? or even acknowledge that they have done it?

what question can be asked of whom at the journal and trib, that will compel them to investigate and report upon the allegation that the leadership of the aps has abdicated their rolemodeling obligations before 98,000 of our sons and daughters?