"We expect kids to show up."

KRQE did a report on APS' "snow day" next Tuesday, link.
They reported;

"All the district would say is it expects kids to show up."

The leadership of the APS knows full well that kids are not
going to show up Tuesday in numbers anywhere near those
required to honestly call it a "school day". Their district will
not be delivering $5.5M worth of education Tuesday.

If they don't know that, their incompetence defies description.

If they know full well that kids are not going to show up,
by what standards of conduct is it honest to say they
expect that they will?

I am disappointed that the news director at KRQE would
let them get away with such a blatantly misleading statement;
especially without attribution.

Why is the statement unattributed? Is it because it's dishonest
on its face?

The statement is deliberately dishonest by any ethical standard,
and I would like to know who said it.

Was it APS Superintendent and
NM FOG Dixon Award Winner
Winston Brooks who would have
interest holders believe that kids
will be getting educated Tuesday
next?








Was it APS' Executive Director of
Communications Monica Armenta?











Was it Director of Communications
and Custodian of Public Records
Rigo Chavez?









Will some underling be flung under the bus?

The fundamental problem is that there are two standards of
conduct in the APS; one for students and one for administrators
and board members.

The student standards of conduct, link, preclude

"... all acts, including half-truths, out-of-context
statements, and even silence, that are intended
to create beliefs or leave impressions that are
untrue or misleading."

The administrative and executive standards of conduct obviously do not.

Who is responsible for deliberately creating beliefs and leaving
impressions that are untrue and misleading?

Which one of them will hold themselves honestly accountable
to the same standards of conduct they establish and enforce upon
students; the standards they tell students are the fundamental
to their character; the standards that they tell students are the
very pillars upon which their character rests.

"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

I have emailed Armenta and asked her to identify the person
to whom the statement should be attributed.

She still had not responded by the end of the day.




photos Mark Bralley