That Marty Chavez no showed the public forum at the school board meeting.
He could have shown up, he could have drawn some attention to the comparatively meaningless and completely unenforceable code of ethics recently adopted as the standard of conduct for the school board.
He could have drawn attention to an administrative accountability audit that won't audit administrators.
He could have drawn attention to the fact that the leadership of the APS has rejected the Pillars of Character Counts (the student standard of conduct) as their standard of conduct, and have abdicated as roll models for 90,000 of our sons and daughters.
Instead, he will pretend that he never got any of my emails about the public forum, that he was never challenged to walk his talk; and that at his moment of truth he didn't come up far short.
He will continue to pass himself off as a supporter of Character Counts, as a man of conviction, and as a man of character;
with no supporting evidence.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
It comes as no surprise, really
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In regards to mayors and schoolboards.... I worked in 2 different districts in 2 different states out East. We tried to relay serious concerns of child abuse, fraud/waste and labor law violations to the mayor's office when other methods were ignored. The answers from the mayors' offices were almost always the same... "that is the district's and state's jurisdiction", "We have no authority over them", "there's no protocol to interact or make suggestion from our office to theirs", "We're compleely seperate entities". This seems to be a commmon "professional courtesy" between these civil servant entities, no matter how bad the situation might become.
I'm certainly not defending the mayor on this, but I think this long-standing "let's not interefere with each other" tradition needs to come to an end.
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