"... we're not making any excuses ..."

Winston Brooks said it several times, Marty Esquivel said
it at least once.

They were talking about the apparently bad results
of recent standardized testing; under the NCLB.

The leadership of the APS is making no excuses for their
apparent failure to do what stakeholders expected them
to do.

Which is just another way of saying that they have no
intention of talking about the problems and personnel.

The leadership of the APS is making no effort
to identify any of the policies or personnel
responsible for the failure.

They would like instead, to move forward.

It makes a difference that they will never look back.
It makes a difference that they will never honestly audit
their own public record.

As long as the top priority is self exception from honest
accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and
competence,

there will always be unsolved problems. There will always
be failure.

It makes a difference that they refuse to be held accountable.

It makes a difference that they stonewall legitimate questions.

It makes a difference that they refuse to be candid,
forthright and honest.


It makes a difference.

What more proof do you need that you have lost control
over power and resources that are fundamentally your own

than when a public servant refuses to answer legitimate
questions about the fate of your power and of your resources?

The terms of public service are the prerogative of the public
and not of the public servant.

Public servants do not write the terms
of their public in-servitude.


We are the master.


We are simply too afraid to crack our whip.

It is difficult to crack a whip from a groveling position.

If nothing else, it looks ridiculous.