APS Sinks Character Counts

The new year will be a bad year for Character Counts in the APS.

Fourteen years after the APS school board unanimously adopted CC as the model for character education in the APS, the program is yet to grow beyond a few isolated toe holds.

The issue is not "Character Counts!", the model. (link). Although in my experience it is the best model,
Character Counts is only one of a number of models
for meaningfully connecting children to their character.

The issue is accountability to a "higher" standard of conduct.
The issue is accountability to any standard of conduct at all;

even the law.

The leadership of the APS cannot produce a record of accountability. All they can do is spend a million dollars a year keeping that record secret from stakeholders.

A million tax dollars surrendered by unwitting taxpayer support for "education".


How important to you,
is the character of the next generation?

How committed are you to the goal of ensuring that,
this generation of children grow up to embrace honor
and courage and character?

Sacrifice is the currency of commitment.

Someone else wrote; "You can give without caring, but you cannot care without giving." The same can be said about commitment and sacrifice. You can sacrifice without commitment, but you cannot be committed without (being willing to make) sacrifice.

If one is truly committed, their commitment is underwritten with their sacrifice. Committed people walk their talk.


A lot of people are talking about the character of the younger generation.

No one in the leadership of the APS is willing to the make the simple sacrifice of holding themselves honestly accountable to the standard of conduct, that they hold for students.

No one in the leadership of the APS is willing to be held honestly accountable as a role model.

No one.


Linda Sink has been hired to prevent stakeholders from appreciating that simple truth.


Giving her aide and abet,
newspapers controlled by Thomas J. Lang.