Our Journal reports this morning that the APS is no longer issuing crime reports. The criminal activity in your school system is none of your business.
It is important to view this latest development in context.
If you go to a school board meeting, stand up at the public forum and ask the leadership of the APS to point to a time, a day, and place where they will sit still and answer legitimate questions about the public interests, their response means, no.
If you ask them to review and approve of whistle blower complaints, the due process required by school board policy, they will not.
More than 150 people who trusted the Board of Education and their promise to provide due process, have been cheated of that due process; because the leadership of the APS doesn't want to tell the truth about their whistle blower protection plan, or about administrative and executive role modeling of the APS Student Standards of Conduct.
If you ask them to tell the truth about standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS, by means of an impartial standards and accountability audit, they will not.
No matter how you frame the question, they will not tell the truth.
The most important piece of the context in which the current scandal sits, is that the APS Police Department and the leadership of the APS, is suppressing evidence of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators. Although then superintendent Beth Everitt promised stakeholders that the results of their investigation of themselves, would be handed over to the District Attorney, it has not been. Even though statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct have long since expired.
During the audit of that scandal, the Council of Great City Schools wrote that the leadership of the APS routinely ignored audit findings. One of the findings of that audit was that APS administrators routinely falsified crime statistics at their schools in order to avoid damage to their schools image.
The Journal relayed that finding to readers by writing; ... data was unreliable because some schools were "better at reporting" than others.
At one time I sat with a team negotiating the teacher contract. I was arguing in favor of contract language that would require the district to tell teachers, and by logical extension all stakeholders, the truth about crime in their school.
APS senior administrator Tom Savage was on the district's team. He was then the principal at Albuquerque High School. He said; "If I told the truth about what is going on in my school, the realtors in my neighborhood would have my neck". Savage was one of the APS senior administrators involved in felony criminal misconduct in the APS Police Department.
A few days later, I found myself in a one on one meeting with then superintendent and West Point graduate, Peter Horoscak. He would not agree that teachers, and by logical extension all stakeholders, had a right to know about crime statistics (among other things) in their schools. Then he offered,
"You can't just tell the truth, you never know how someone might try to use it."
Have you had enough yet? Or are you still going to trust them with another $650M, next February?
2 comments:
Quote the scumbag Tom Savage [paraphrased from memory]:"I had to fake the crime reports at my high school. The Realtors in the area would have had my head!"
Somethings never change!
Personally, I would trust them with 2 cents, mine or theirs.
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