Everitt still Aiken County's top choice

According to the Aiken Standard, Beth Everitt is still the top choice for the Aiken County Schools Superintendency. (link)

According to the same article, Everitt is stonewalling them on the truth about gradegate.

"Everitt said earlier this month that she couldn't talk about the specific situation because of federal privacy laws protecting students."

Everitt chooses not to talk about gradegate. No law prevents her from being candid, forthright and honest about her involvement in gradegate. Nor does it prevent her from explaining why the "special investigation" of gradegate by Everitt's friend NM PED Secretary Veronica Garcia, did not include Everitt being asked even a single question about the scandal, on the record.

Federal privacy laws that protect students, do not prevent her from being candid, honest, and forthright about her personal involvement in the grade change.

No law prevents her from telling the truth about the scandal in her police department, or in her Maintenance and Operations, or in her Financial Department. She has avoided telling the truth, to protect her own self interests; to avoid accountability for her failure to provide oversight over her own administration.

APS' student code of conduct, established for and enforced upon students by Everitt, requires that they as young men and women of character, do "more than the law requires, and less than the law allows". (from the Pillars of Character Counts)

Because APS' senior administrative role model is no longer accountable to the student standard of conduct, Everitt and APS/Modrall, instead use the law to avoid telling the truth.

Their record is one of refusing to explain, defend, or even acknowledge that they are not telling the truth. Everitt will not stand on the record and answer questions about her refusal to answer questions.

Before you appoint her as your next superintendent; ask her why neither she, nor any member of her administration is honestly accountable to any standard of conduct that uses the word ethical.

Good luck Aiken, if you choose to just let this all slip by without explanation or defense.