Character Counts! or does it?

“Character counts!” is a declarative sentence with exclamation.

Students are expected to model and promote their belief that
their character counts.

On the table is a new set of standards of conduct.
They will be in effect at APS athletic events.
They will apply to students, and adult spectators.

There are standards already in place that directly address all
of the same issues as the new standards.
The new standards are no improvement over the existing standards.
They offer no advantage what so ever.

If students were actually required to comply with the existing
standards, the problems that the new standards are to address,
would not exist.

If spectators were actually accountable as role models of the
current student standard of conduct,
the problems would not exist.

So why a different set of standards?

It is to dilute the atmosphere of standards.

The leadership of the APS is prepared to take yet another step
away from accountability as role models. It is a deliberate step.

The leadership wants to draw attention away from the student
standards of conduct.

They need to draw attention away from the student standards
because they do not want to be held accountable to them.

The student standard of conduct is clear and unequivocal.
It is a nationally recognized, accepted, and respected code of
conduct. It represents a higher standard of conduct than the law.

The so-called “leaders” of the APS do not want to be
accountable to a higher standard of conduct than the law.

In truth, their record is;
they are not accountable even to the law.

They cannot argue that they should not be accountable
to the student standard of conduct.

Sooner or later they will have to admit that they are, in fact,
accountable as role models.

Accountability as a role model means accountable to the same
standards of conduct that they enforce upon students.

Another of the questions that the leadership of the APS will
never answer;

Why did you remove the following statement from your
own code of conduct;

In no case, shall the standard of conduct for an adult,
be lower than the standard of conduct for students.