Mountain or molehill?

There are a number of written statements
that might be offered as examples of
the APS Student Standard of Conduct.

The most all encompassing, can be found in the Student Behavior Handbook.

Students are expected to: Model and promote the pillars of Character Counts.

Because accountability to The Pillars of Character Counts requires accountability to all legitimate codes of conduct; this particular statement would seem to be the philosophical trump card.

The Pillars of Character Counts is a widely recognized, accepted, and respected code of ethical conduct.
It is a "higher" standard of conduct.

APS Superintendent Beth Everitt and the leadership of the APS do not want to be held personally accountable to a higher standard of conduct. In particular, they do not want to be held honestly accountable the Pillars of Character Counts.

So Beth Everitt and the leadership of the APS changed the language in the employee code of conduct. It used to read,

in no case will the standard of conduct for an adult be lower than the standard for students.

It no longer does. Beth Everitt's standard of conduct no longer requires her to hold herself accountable to same high standard to which she holds students accountable.

One once could argue;
it doesn't make any difference if it is written or not;
educators have an inescapable obligation as role models, to hold themselves honestly accountable to the standard of conduct which they establish and enforce upon students.

Beth Everitt's response to that obligation was to then lower the student standard of conduct to a standard she would hold herself accountable to. She lowered to the student standard, and her own, to an unenforceable standard

The language in the Student Behavior Handbook used to read; students are required to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts.

It no longer does. Requirement has been replace with "expectation". Students are no longer required to behave ethically, they are only "expected" to behave ethically.

And by extension, Beth Everitt, and the leadership of the APS, are no longer required to behave ethically.

If one were an unscrupulous lawyer (Mark Twain would add,
But I repeat myself.);
would one rather defend a senior APS administrator or board member against charges that they had not met an "expectation"; or that they had not met a "requirement"?

By their own deliberate and methodical actions; Beth Everitt and the leadership of the APS have systematically excepted themselves from honest accountability to any standard of conduct at all, even the law. They are damned absolutely by the public record of their conduct and competence as public servants.

This is why neither she, nor they, will surrender the public records of their public service.

This is why unwitting taxpayer support of "education" is being used to fund litigation to secret public records. This is why taxpayer dollars are being used against the public interest.

Aiken Georgia, are you looking for a good ole boys club
to run your schools?

Are the interests of your 25,000 sons and daughters served
by a complete lack of accountability for public servants
in your public schools?

Are you looking for a role model for your staff and students?

If you are, I suggest that you will need to continue looking.

You have not found one in Beth Everitt.