Credibility Points, or, Monica Math

When the Trib editors suggested that the leadership of the APS had accumulated some credibility points for calling for an outside audit of (just) their accounting department, and accumulated some more credibility points for finally arming the school police;

they painted the credibility picture as one where you can gain or loose points based on your actions. Presumably if you gain enough points your credibility is restored; if you loose enough points your credibility is again lost.

I don't think their picture is correct. But for the sake of argument I will go in that direction briefly.

The leadership, according to the Trib, gained some points for the audit and the guns decision.

They lost points then, when they refused to produce an honest accounting of the money squandered at the Uptown Administrative Complex, and for Gradegate, and for the Principal Shuffle, and for hiding the public record of the corruption in the leadership of the APS police department.

Only the Trib editors know the system by which the number of points is assigned to each action, and they have not laid it out for scrutiny. Although, they have conceded that the leadership is way down on points.


They haven't figured the number of points lost by hiring another full time spin doctress to keep the community confused about the truth.


I would say it should count 104,500 points, each year;


on the "loose credibility" tally.