APS Changes the Rules for the Public Meetings

The night before the day of the four scheduled meetings,
Channel 4 announced that the rules have been changed.

Under the new rules, those who attend the community
meetings with the candidates for the APS superintendency,
will no longer be allowed to submit any questions at all.

The previous plan was that attendees would be able to
submit specific questions. Those questions would then
be translated into "theme" questions, by volunteers from
the League of Women Voters,

I suspect that when the League of Women Voters found out
that they were being manipulated into keeping stakeholders
from asking specific questions, they pulled out of the scheme.



According to Channel 4, the questions will now be
"pre-selected".

Until I find out otherwise, I will suppose that the questions
will be pre-selected by Paula Maes and/or some of the other
good ol' boys looking to keep the subject of role modeling
off of the table.

and will not include questions will allow stakeholders to sort
the candidates who have the character and the courage
to be role models, from the ones who don't.

Imagine, we are going to hire a new superintendent, and
the person that will be hired, will never have had to give
a candid, honest and forthright response to the question,

Will you be held honestly accountable as a role model of
the student standard of conduct? Yes or no?


We are going to end up with yet another good ol' boy
as our next superintendent.

One with neither the character, nor the courage,
to model and enforce, any meaningful standards at all;

much less a higher standard of conduct.


Shame on Thomas Lang, Kent Walz, Mary Lynn Roper,
Michelle Donaldson, and Sue Stephens.

shame, shame, shame ...

Update; Channel 13, at 10pm reports that the plan is as was first announced; specific questions translated into theme questions.

Who knows what's going on.

Leonard DeLayo showed up in the KRQE piece to point out that the board was going way too fast in only allowing the public 1 day to have input on the candidates.

Paula Maes counter argument was that
the public should be glad that they got the one day,
previous hirings were completed with no public input at all.

Oh the times they are a changin'