The Monica Armenta Thing

I figure that Monica Armenta owns the
Inn of the Mountain Gods scandal/fiasco.

In truth I don't know if she owns setting up a conference at the Inn of the Mountain Gods for administrators; paid for in large, by people who stand to gain, by gaining favor with these administrators.

Likely we will never know who owns it.

Just like we really don't know who owns gradegate.

I asked straight out, over two months ago,if board members new about the cover up, and they stonewalled the question.

Beth Everitt was never asked a single question on the record and under oath, even during the NM PED "investigation" of gradegate.

The impartial investigation of the gradegate scandal that was broached by Board Member Marty Esquivel, has been stonewalled ever since by Maes/Modrall et al.

Even the NM PED Educator Ethics Bureau is covering it up. What ever happened to the investigation of the charges made against Elsy Fierro?



The allegation is that; the appearance of a conflict of interest was created and then covered up; in violation of board policy and any meaningful standard of conduct.

Armenta, or whomever, could have said; the allegation is not true.

Or she could have said; you know you're right, I screwed up. I screwed up and am willing to be held accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct; under a system over which I have no control; and even against my will.

Which she didn't.

Nor did the new APS Director of Communications post any information at all about the meeting on the APS Website; the whole meeting in Ruidoso was kept semi-secret from stakeholders.

Instead of admitting or denying the allegation, Armenta's response was; Administrators got what they deserved.

("At some point, the public's got to decide whether principals and administrators are really valued as much (as other professions)," she said. "Our pool is getting smaller and smaller, and these people are some of the most educated in the community ... It's a double message constantly.")

That statement, depending on your perspective is either true or false. In neither case does it represent a response to the allegation that she (or, whomever) created the appearance of a conflict of interest.


There is only one reason not to tell the truth.