Elsy Fierro's Hearing Delayed

State May Drop Ethics Charges in Grade Case
(Journal, sub req)

"State Attorney Bruce Berlin said he tried to contact the student through his mother but was unsuccessful."

He would have been looking for permission to have the student's record opened up in a public hearing; thereby ending the controversy over whether or not the hearing needed to be secret from public knowledge.

If the mystery student were willing to be held honestly accountable to a higher standard of conduct; he would open the record of his conduct and competence as a student and accept the consequences.

If Teresa Cordova were willing to be a role model for her son, and honest with her constituents; she would open the record of her conduct and competence as a parent and a county commissioner.

If the leadership of the NM Educator Ethics Bureau, and the NM Public Education Department, were willing to be held accountable for their conduct and competence as public servants; they would not be using legal loopholes and technicalities to deny access to public records.

If the leadership of the APS, were willing to be held accountable for their conduct and competence as public servants; they would open the record of their public service to an honest and impartial forensic audit.

The common thread is obvious; no one is willing to hold themselves honestly accountable to any meaningful standard of conduct. And, they are willing to do anything to except themselves from accountability; even pervert the law.


None of which is being lost on those who look to them
as role models.



“Example has more followers than reason.”
— Christian Nevell Bovee, American author and lawyer (1820-1904)

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
— Albert Einstein, Swiss-American mathematician, physicist and public philosopher (1879-1955)

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and 26th president (1858-1919)

"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born."
— William R. Inge, American playwright (1913-1973)

"If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits."
— William J. Bennett, author and former U.S. Secretary of Education (b. 1943)

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."
— William J. Bennett, author and former U.S. Secretary of Education (b. 1943)

"A man's character is his fate."
— Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (c. 540-c. 475 B.C.)



"If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you’re probably doing something wrong."
— Alfred Kazin, American critic and author (1915-1998)