Why is APS Character Counts Paying for Rooms at the Inn of the Mountain Gods?

There was not one single administrator at the conference who is honestly accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts as their standard of conduct; neither as public servants, nor as role models for 90,000 students in the APS.

Many who attended the conference, led by Paula Maes, Board President and President of the Character Counts Leadership Council, have actually made deliberate and considered decisions to except themselves from that accountability by rewriting APS policies and standards.

Four board members at the soirée , Maes, Facio, Gonzales, and Martin, just voted, along with the rest of the board, Rowe, Lucero, and Esquivel, to adopt as their own personal standard of conduct as the most senior role models in the District, a comparatively meaningless and completely unenforceable code of ethics. They have deliberately and methodically abdicated their responsibility to model the student standard of conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts,

and APS Character Counts is rewarding them with rooms at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.

How much money did they spend? Was it public money? Were they private funds donated to the APS Character Counts by people who thought they were buying lessons in character for their children?

Who authorized this? Was it the same APS administrator that is responsible for the APS Character Counts website? Apparently the only thing this administrator does for her salary as an APS Executive Director, is to make sure that the Character Counts Leadership Council never opposes the abandonment of the Pillars of Character Counts as their standard of conduct, by the leadership of the APS.


The children in the APS community are seeing a lesson in character.

Is it the lesson that we really want them to learn?


"Don't worry that children never listen to you.
Worry that they are always watching you."
Fulghum