APS Board asked to lower expectations for students.

Members of the APS Board of Education are role models.
Whether they like it or not, whether they will admit it or not,
they are role models of the Student Standards of Conduct.

Yet when asked to hold themselves honestly accountable as
role models, they refuse to even discuss the issue on the record.
There is not one of them who will stand on the record and deny
their obligations as a role model. Yet there is not one who will
stand on the record and accept their obligations as a role model.

It is clear that the APS Student Standards of Conduct;
the Pillars of Character Counts!, a nationally recognized,
accepted and respected code of ethical conduct,
is too high a standard of conduct for the leadership of the APS.

Since the leadership of the APS will not raise their own
standards of conduct to reflect the level of expectation that
they establish and enforce upon students, they cannot be role
models of the student standards of conduct.

Yet, there needs to be a role modeling expectation. There
needs to be a role modeling clause in the adult standards of
conduct. Somewhere, sometime, someone has to be able to
tell students that our expectations for them are no different
than our expectations for adults.

The only way that the leadership of the APS will ever step
up as role models, is if the standards are lowered to the point
that they are comfortable being held honestly accountable to
them.

The leadership of the APS was asked, last night at the public
forum, to find a standard of conduct low enough that they
could, would, hold themselves honestly accountable as role
models, by holding themselves honestly accountable to the
standards of conduct they require of students.

The only remaining question is; is there a standard of conduct
low enough that they will hold themselves honestly accountable
to it?

Their record* shows that they are not willing to hold themselves
honestly accountable even to the law; the lowest recognized
standard of conduct.

How can these people be role models, if there is no standard
low enough for them to hold themselves accountable to?

*The leadership of the APS has a record of litigating for themselves, exception to the law. I can bear personal witness to a settlement agreement that included trading tax dollars for a promise not to turn over incontrovertible evidence of felony perjury by a senior APS administrator, former APS Director of Risk Management, Richard Cangiolosi, to any agency of law enforcement.

When APS Modrall was asked to surrender public records
indicative of the character of their litigation on behalf of
administrators and board members, they refused to surrender
even a single record. Which indicates that their record is one
of litigation against the public interests and on the public dime.