Lorenzo Garcia, Character Counts! politicized.

School Board Member Lorenzo Garcia expressed what I felt was a reservation about the "politicization" of Character Counts! Apparently he sees that politicization as a barrier to stepping up to honest accountability as a role model of the Pillars of Character Counts!

The issue is a red herring. There is no correlation between Character Counts! on a political level, and whether there will be honest accountability for administrators and board members, as role models of a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct, link.

Nor is the argument about the personal character of any member of the leadership of the APS. It isn't about how one leads their own life.

It is about, it is only about:

Are they willing to hold themselves honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, under an impartial system, powerful enough to hold them accountable, even against their will?

That's the question they won't answer.
They won't answer because the answer is no.
Any answer except yes means no.

When the question is, will you tell the truth?
any answer except yes means, no.

Winston Brooks labeled as a nuisance and then closed, a complaint that his refusal to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts! was manifest ethical misconduct.

What ever the standards of conduct and competence in the leadership of the APS are , there is no honest accountability to them.

Truth be told, the real reason that the leadership of the APS does not want to be held honestly accountable as role models of the Pillars of Character Counts! is, the pillars require the truth be told.

As but one example; more than two years ago, there were senior APS leadership involved in felony criminal misconduct during the scandal in the APS Police Department, Journal link. In the interim, statutes of limitation have expired on criminal misconduct. The leadership of the APS still, has not surrendered the evidence to the District Attorney's Office. Nor will they surrender the (ethically redacted) truth to public knowledge, to stakeholders.

You can talk as much as you want to about whether
Character Counts! has been politicized, but it would serve
only to hide the fact that character doesn't count at all,
not in the leadership of the APS.




photos Mark Bralley