“To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to create a menace to society.”

According to Theodore Roosevelt.

Wherever else the responsibility for the development of character in young people lies; public schools have the greatest responsibility of all.

If the character of young people is important, if their character counts, then public schools have the responsibility to provide meaningful character education for students.

The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education acknowledged that responsibility when they unanimously adopted Character Counts as the model for character education in the APS.

The record of character education district wide, is a record of abject failure.

submitted as proof; APS Character Count Website. (link)
APS pays two or three teacher salaries to the administrator whose job it is promote and coordinate character education in the APS.

As we enter the new year, I remain resolved to shedding light on the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

They enter the new year refusing to explain, defend, or even acknowledge their abandonment of character education, and of their responsibilities and obligations as role models for 98,000 students in the APS.