$1.25M in grants to teach ethics.

The Journal reports this morning, link, that schools of
business at UNM and NMSU will get $1.25M to "... to help business school students learn a high standard of ethics."

NMSU Dean and former Governor Garrey Carruthers said
of the effort to teach ethics at a younger age;

“To go out and talk to a 60-year-old businessman about
business ethics might be interesting and entertaining
(but pointless).”

He could not be more correct. The younger a person is when
they begin to think about their character, the more likely they
are to develop character.

Currently, despite the fact that school board policy requires that
students in the APS receive character education, they are being
denied meaningful ethics training because there is no one in the
leadership of the APS willing to actually step up to honest
accountability as a rolemodel of the APS Student Standards
of Conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!; a nationally
recognized, accepted, and respected code of ethical conduct.














Both APS Superintendent Winston Brooks, the senior-most administrative role model of the student standards of conduct, and School Board President Marty Esquivel, the senior-most executive role model of the student standards of conduct, will get all pissy if you suggest that their unwillingness to step up as role models of the Pillars of Character Counts! flows from their personal lack of character and courage.

Yet neither will offer any alternative explanation.

There isn't one.

The Journal continues still, to refuse to investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.




photos Mark Bralley