Teachers Union President Ellen Bernstein

has joined the ranks of those who are displeased
with Paula Maes' running of the installation of her next
good ol' boy superintendent; Linda Sink.

Bernstein, according to an article in the Journal, said;
Paula Maes Modrall, et al, "... broke a guarantee it had
made to ask applicants about some of the union's key
concerns."

At the top of her list, how will the next supt. deal with NCLB?

The second most important specific question that every
applicant should be asked in public, and on the record.



The first most important questions;
Will you hold yourself honestly accountable
to meaningful standards of conduct and competence as
the senior most public servant and role model in the APS?

And, will you begin auditing corruption and incompetence
out of the leadership of the APS immediately?


Stakeholders have a right to ask legitimate specific questions.

Specific questions will serve to identify the good ol' boys.
They will not be ferreted out except through specific questioning.

On the subject of asking specific questions of the candidates
for the single most important job in our community,

Paula Maes says, through an underling,
"... we are unable to (allow specific questions to be asked)
because the meetings would lose meaning and integrity ..."

Too late.
The meetings have already lost their meaning and integrity.




Paula Maes and Modrall both have enormous asses to cover,
metaphorically speaking.

And they are covering their asses by not allowing
the asking of specific inconvenient questions.

She and Modrall are able to do so,
only with the continued aid and abet of the media;

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

What about the rights of a candidate who intends
to hold them self honestly accountable to the student
standard of conduct?,

and who intends to hold every other administrator in
the leadership of the APS honestly accountable
to that same standard as well?

Is it fair to stakeholders that
Paula Maes, Modrall, and their cronies in the media
deprive the honest candidates an honest chance
to gather the support of the community behind their
character, their courage, and their candidacy?