What are the odds?

Tomorrow morning, the APS Policy Committee will meet
to discuss restoring the Role Modeling clause to their own
standards of conduct.

I write that advisedly, as there appears to be some real push
back against having a public discussion of the issue.

Committee Chair David Peercy has

• scheduled the meeting when stakeholders can't participate,
• placed the issue at the very end of a very long agenda, and
• chosen not to mention the subject of role modeling, choosing instead to call the discussion; Employee Standards of Conduct".

Assuming that the subject will come up,
what are the odds that the role modeling clause
will be restored to the employee standards of conduct?

In my estimation; there are two solid votes against;
Paula Maes and Robert Lucero.



Maes has a need to hide the record
of the APS Modrall relationship
from the public record, a task that
becomes impossible if she ever finds
herself honestly accountable to any
standard of conduct that requires
telling the truth.





Lucero will vote against, simply
because he is arrogant and will not
be held accountable for any thing
by any one.

He is personally responsible for
tabling a previous motion before
the board, which would have required
administrators and board members
to answer legitimate questions,
candidly forthrightly and honestly.



Likely siding with them, David Peercy.

In the entire time that I have been paying
attention to him, I have yet to see him do
anything that would indicate that he has
the character and the courage to stand up
as a role model.

When asked, he equivocates, avoiding
straight out answers; a practice which
normally indicates a "no" when it comes
time to vote.


Solidly in support;



Board member David Robbins
put the issue on the table for discussion.
He has shown extraordinary courage in
doing so. He has repeatedly stated that
he would have no problem being held
honestly accountable as a role model
of the student standards of conduct.




Board member Lorenzo Garcia
has also indicated that he is
prepared to stand up as a role
model for students.

Obviously an honorable man;
I would be stunned if he did not vote
in support of administrative and
executive role modeling of the
student standards of conduct.




Board member Delores Griego
did not respond to questions about
her personal involvement in the
Gradegate scandal.

Other than that, I have seen her
do nothing that would indicate
that she is not willing to stand up
as a role model for students.


Which leaves; Board member Marty Esquivel.

If the board splits 3-3, Esquivel
is the swing vote.

There was a time when I believed
in his character and courage.

He is the only APS leader who has
ever stood on the record and asked
for an independent audit of the
leadership of the APS.


His audit was shut down by Paula Maes, who said that
she would never allow any audit that named the names
of the corrupt and incompetent in the leadership of the APS.

Since then, he has done a number of things that give me great
pause in hoping that he will be able to summon the character
and the courage to step up as a role model of the Student
Standards of Conduct. link and link

It is fair to say that the issue of administrative and executive role modeling of the student standard of conduct by means of restoring the Role Modeling clause to their own standards of conduct, which reads;

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

is very much up in the air.



photos Mark Bralley