Employee conduct. Out of school and away from students

Teacher’s contracts are very specific. They spell out exactly the hours and the days when a teacher is a teacher.

And there is a history of very literal interpretation of contract language by the leadership of the APS.

I am aware of at least one teacher who tried to break up a student fight; off school grounds and after school hours. He was injured; rather severely. The leadership of the APS decided that he did not enjoy their protection because he was off school grounds and it was after school.

Now, the leadership of the APS has decided to broaden their interpretation of contract language. They would like to hold teachers and other employees accountable for their conduct outside of school hours and away from students. Robert Lucero in particular, would like to crucify teachers who are caught driving drunk, and off the clock.

Employees will resist on at least two counts;

1. they will not have been meaningfully involved in a decision that affected their interests, and
2. they will resent being held accountable, by the leadership of the APS, to a higher standard of conduct, than the standard to which administrators and board members are accountable.

The most outrageous part of the whole thing; the part that is absolutely laughable, is that Robert Lucero wants to hold teachers accountable outside school hours solely because they are still role models for students; even when they are not at work.

Yet he has deliberately and methodically excepted himself from any personal accountability as a role model of any standard of conduct at all. Not as a public servant and the steward of a billion tax dollars a year, and not as one of the most senior role models in the entire district.



He, ... and the rest of the leadership of the APS.