APS Human Resources has a new website where they can publish an old lie

APS announced that its Human Resources Department has a
new website, link. My exploration thereof, led me to the
Employee Handbook, link, and then to Standards of Conduct, link.

Employee Standards of Conduct

APS employees serve as positive role models for students
and set good examples in conduct, manners, dress and
grooming. APS expects each employee to maintain
the highest standards of conduct and act in a mature
and responsible manner at all times. Employees must not
engage in activities which violate federal, state or local
laws or which, in any way, diminish the integrity, efficiency
or discipline of the District.(emphasis added)

If you ask anyone in the leadership to point to those "highest
standards", they cannot. They don't exist.

During the exceedingly brief "debate"
over whether the role modeling
clause should be returned to the
adult standards of conduct, Peercy
claimed that holding adults
accountable to the same standards
of conduct as students would
represent a lowering of the adult
standards. Clearly, Peercy was
(is) ignorant about the student
standards of conduct; how high
they really are and what they require.

Student standards for example require truthtelling, the adult
standards do not.

The role modeling clause they stripped from their own code of
conduct used to read; In no case shall the standards of conduct
for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

Peercy argued that the "highest standards", though they
remain unspecified, are higher standards than student
standards which are specified; clearly and unequivocally.

Peercy would like people to believe that there are applicable
standards of conduct for adults and they are higher standards
than those that apply to students. Neither proposition is true.
The standards of conduct that apply to administrators and
board members amount to whatever APS lawyers can litigate
at taxpayer expense. They end up being the least restrictive
interpretation of the lowest standards of conduct; the law.

They are absolutely unaccountable to any standard of conduct
higher than the law, much less the "highest" standards of all.

There are higher standards of conduct than the law. Students
are accountable to one of them; the Pillars of Character Counts!, link.

Students are expected to model and promote a nationally
recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct.
The leadership of the APS has scrupulously scrubbed their
codes of conduct to eliminate any real accountability to
enforceable ethical standards.

The standards of conduct that apply to adults, including
administrators and board members are written above - that
is it; their standards are the "highest standards" as interpreted
by administrators holding other administrators "accountable".

The School Board has a Code of Ethics, link.
By their own admission, it is utterly unenforceable.




photo Mark Bralley