Everitt has Maes' support, and Bernstein's

I've been reading the online news around the
Aiken County Schools selection of Beth Everitt
as their next superintendent.

It turns out that the President of the local teachers union, Ellen Bernstein is a big fan of, and highly recommends Beth Everitt to the people of Aiken County South Carolina.

She comes highly recommended to Aikenians
by School Board President Paula Maes as well.

They say you are known by your friends.

These two friends of Beth Everitt are not friends of Character Counts.

In the APS, the Pillars of Character Counts are
no longer the standard of conduct for adults.
They are no longer even the "required" standard of conduct for students.

Paula Maes and the rest of the leadership of the APS
deliberately and methodically eliminated the Pillars of Character Counts from their own standard of conduct.

Paula Maes is (or was) the President of the (APS) Character Counts Leadership Council at the time when she was voting to except herself, administrators, board members, and the Modrall law firm, from accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts.

The board now claims accountability only to its own code of ethics; a comparatively meaningless and completely unenforceable disgrace.

Despite the fact that Character Counts came to APS via union president and Character Counts founding father, Don Whatley, Ellen Bernstein and the union have abandoned their support of Character Counts as well.

Bernstein explains, " ... that was Don's thing."


This all is of some importance depending upon
how Aiken County feels about honest accountability
to meaningful standards of conduct and competence
in public service;

... and about role modeling.


Does Character Count in Aiken County Public Schools?