APS School Board meeting tonight

Again they will be asked to name a time, a day, and a place
where they will stand for legitimate questions about the public
interests in the public schools, and then respond to those
questions candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.

Again they will refuse.

Despite the fact that they insist that they want to create
communication between themselves and stakeholders, and

despite the fact that insist that they want to improve public
perceptions of the APS, and

despite their obligations as the senior most role models of a
standard of conduct that requires candid, forthright and honest
responses to legitimate questions.

They model only hypocrisy.

The Albuquerque Journal's education reporter will be there.
She will write nothing about the ethics and accountability
scandal in the leadership of the APS; never has, never will.


The proof, it is said, is in the pudding.
The pudding does not include any opportunity for stakeholders
to ask legitimate questions of the leadership of the APS.

If the leadership of the APS had any intention at all
to be honest with stakeholders, they would provide
an opportunity for stakeholders to ask legitmate questions
without filtration.

They will not, and that is compelling proof of their intention to
continue to hide from stakeholders and the truth.

It is compelling proof of their underlying and overarching dishonesty.


How can stakeholders trust them while they continue to refuse
to offer any indication that they are trustworthy?

How can stakeholders trust them when they continue to refuse
to provide answers to even the simplest and most fundamental
questions like; a request for an honest accounting of the money
they have spent at 6400 Uptown Blvd?

The truth is that they could not care less whether or not
stakeholders trust them. Their day to day existence is
uneffected by the issue of stakeholder trust;
they are still going to get a billion tax dollars a year to spend.
Stakeholder trust does not play.

It doesn't play at least until the next mill levy or bond issue election.
And then they will pay the piper.