Role modeling is an overt act

There is no such thing as an inconspicuous role model.

If we really want students in the APS to grow up to embrace
character, and courage, and honor,
someone has to show them what character and courage
and honor look like.

Somebody has to stand up some where, some time, and
show students what moral courage looks like.

Somebody has to stand up some where, some time, and
show students what honest accountability to meaningful
standards of conduct and competence, looks like.

Somebody has to stand up some where, some time, and
show students what telling the truth looks like.

"If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits."

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."
— William J. Bennett, author and former U.S. Secretary of Education (b. 1943)

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and 26th president (1858-1919)

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
— Albert Einstein, Swiss-American mathematician, physicist and public philosopher (1879-1955)

“Example has more followers than reason.”
— Christian Nevell Bovee, American author and lawyer (1820-1904)

"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born."
— William R. Inge, American playwright (1913-1973)

We should not be so worried that our children never listen to us, as we should be worried that they are always watching us.
-Upton Sinclair

Every generation expects the following generation
to be the first generation to hold themselves honestly
accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

It is time for an open and honest discussion of standards and accountability in the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

It makes no difference who points that out.

Or why.

It is time for an open and honest discussion of standards and accountability in the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

There is only one reason that the leadership of the APS will not tell the truth about their standards and accountability. It would cost them their jobs.

Some of them might even go to jail.

The leadership of the APS will not hold itself accountable
to any standard of conduct that requires them to tell the truth.

It is easily demonstrated that they are not even accountable to
the law.

Meanwhile, in their class rooms, students are told that
this kind of conduct is engaged in,
at the forfeit of their good character.

How can anyone that truly believes in the ethical principles
manifest in the Pillars of Character Counts! link.
stand by and do nothing while this goes on?

Is there really not a single member of the leadership of the APS
who is willing to stand up and say;

I will hold myself honestly
accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts!,
for at least those few hours each day,
when that is my demand of students.

Is there really not a single member of the leadership of the APS
who will stand up as a role model of the student standards of
conduct for even 6 and 1/2 hours a day?