It isn't just about role modeling

If the leadership of the APS had EVER been really accountable to the student standard of conduct;

they would have been accountable, as public servants,
to a nationally recognized, accepted, and respected
higher standard of conduct and competence.

Not just as role models;

but as department heads in every department that has been involved in a recent scandal.

If Gil Lovato had been honestly accountable to
the student standard of conduct, not just as a role model,
but as the senior most administrator of a police department,
there would have been no scandal.

If Bill Moffett had been honestly accountable to
the student standard of conduct, not just as a role model,
but as the senior most administrator of APS finances,
there would not now be a scandal.

If Beth Everitt had been honestly accountable to
the student standard of conduct, not just as a role model,
but as the senior most administrative officer of the APS,
the leadership of the APS would not be good ol' boys
who suffer no accountability to any standard of conduct at all
not even the law.

If Paula Maes, the President of the Character Counts! Leadership Council were honestly accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts!; the student standard of conduct;

she and her husband's law firm; Modrall

wouldn't be making millions of dollars off taxpayers
who think that they are taxing themselves to
educate their children;

and not to buy exception to the law
for a bunch of good ol' boys who run the APS.

It isn't just about being accountable as a role model.

It is about being honestly accountable to
any meaningful standards of competence and conduct

at all.


If they were actually and honestly accountable to
any meaningful standards of competence; at all,

department after department in the APS would not be
turning up in chaos.


Good ol' boys are accountable only to other good ol' boys, and
not very damn often. Clearly, not often enough.

Hardly ever really.

OK, never. really.


The exceptions come when large numbers of people
storm the castle and throw them out.



Figure me;
if about a few hundred people were willing
to show up at a board meeting and demand
that;

• the senior most administrative public servant in the APS; Winston Brooks
  
• the senior most administrative steward of a billion tax dollars a year; Winston Brooks
• the senior most administrative role model of the student standard of conduct; Winston Brooks
• hold himself personally accountable to the student standard of conduct
• by a system powerful enough to hold him accountable even against his will
• for eight measly hours a day

I think it just might be honestly covered by the "news";
Thomas Lang, Mary Lynn Roper, and Michelle Donaldson.


And then, at the next board meeting there would be
a couple of thousand of the great unwashed
armed with nothing but their courage and their torches
and their pitchforks;

there to demand that Winston Brooks declare, on the record;

• the particular standards of conduct and competence; to which he will be held accountable; and
  
• the system by which he will be held accountable to those standards.

Or, there will be another and larger torches and pitchforks
demonstration;


... and so on.