... forget about it? ??

If there is a common thread among APS plans for reform; it is that they are all prefaced by; let's forget about the past. Let's focus instead upon the future.

The flaw in that plan is that you bring into your future;
all of the same corrupt and incompetent people
who screwed up the past. They bring with them,
no meaningful standards of conduct or competence,
and no system by which they can be held accountable
to any standards at all. Not one will bring with them
a reason to behave any differently than before.

Some elephants are too big to ignore.

Consider for example the plight of the new superintendent. Assume that the result of the search is that we have the selected and hired the absolute best superintendent on the planet.

S/he will inherit:

• An administration that is wracked with incompetence and corruption.
• Those who are not corrupt and/or incompetent, have guilty knowledge of those who are.
• There are no meaningful standards of conduct or competence.
• There is no system under which any administrator or board member is accountable even to the law.
• The entire institution, with the exception of one board member, is on record as opposing any effort to expose and eliminate corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.
• There will have been no audit of accountability in the administration of the public trust and treasure in the APS.
• Not one single administrator will be identified as holding a position for which they are unqualified by their lack of competence, or of character.
• And the local newspapers and media are covering up.
  

These allegations could be absolutely and completely rebutted by the identification of even a single meaningful standard of conduct or competence to which anyone in the leadership of the APS is honestly accountable.




Not even a hundred thousand dollar a year spin doctor
can spin nonexistent standards and accountability
out of thin air.

Not in response to me; not even to restore the credibility and reputation of the leadership of the APS.

She, like those hiding behind her, is reduced to stonewalling.

All they can do is stonewall.



Now tell me that even the world's best superintendent
has a snowball's chance in hell
of accomplishing anything at all.