Imagine a bucket full of truth

The bucket is full of the whole truth about the APS, or
about any other agency of government
that administers the public trust and treasure.

Look into the bucket. You will find a very small scoop.
Take two scoopfuls of truth out of the bucket;
store them in a safe place.

One scoop represents the truth that the law says should not,
can not, and will not be surrendered to public knowledge.

The other scoopful represents the truth that is excepted
from surrender, for any other good and ethical reason.

Everything left in the bucket belongs to us.

The legally and ethically redacted truth belongs to us.
All of it belongs to us.

The decision making power that they wield is our power.
The money they spend is our money.

The truth about the administration of our power, and
the truth about the administration of our resources,

belongs to us.

The leadership of the APS no more claim to that truth
than any other stakeholder. They have no right to dole
out the truth according to their whim.

The leadership of the APS holds up a standard of conduct
for students. That standard of conduct requires that under
circumstances such as these, the bucket is to be emptied out
on the table, for everyone to see.

We tell them that if they do not tell the truth,
it is at the forfeit of their good character.

The leadership of the APS is modeling far different behavior.
They think the bucket full of truth belongs to them.

If you can prove that you have a right to some small part of it,
they may give it to you. Or they may not.

Because as then APS Superintendent Peter Horoscak
once told me;

You can't just tell the truth;
you don't know how someone might try to use it.

Every problem in the APS has roots in the fact that
they will not let stakeholders look into their bucket.

It is time for them to empty out their bucket.

There is no legitimate agenda in the entire APS,
that does not move forward on the day
that the leadership of the APS tells the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.

The current leadership of the APS will not tell the truth.

Will the next?

It is a fair question. It is a legitimate question.


Candidates,
will you tell us the legally and ethically redacted truth
about our power and about our resources?

Will you swear that you will tell the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,

(so help you God)?


Will you create a district policy that requires administrators
to do the same?



Any answer except yes, means no.