"The proper time to influence the character of a child

... is about a hundred years before he’s born",

according to William R. Inge, American playwright (1913-1973)

Having missed that deadline, we must attend to the next.

The right time, to do the right thing, is always right now. unk

Character development should be part of the core curriculum.

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and president (1858-1919)

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
William J. Bennett, author and former U.S. Secretary of Education (b. 1943)

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
again - William J. Bennett

APS students are being denied character education because the leadership of the APS are unwilling to hold themselves (either individually or collectively) honestly accountable as role models of the student standards of conduct.

Nearly 90,000 of this community's sons and daughters are deprived of administrative and executive role models of student standards of conduct, and of character education in general, because there is no one in the entire leadership of the APS who can summon the character and the courage to hold themselves honestly accountable as a role model of the Pillars of Character Counts!, link.

And because Kent Walz and the rest of the establishment media won't tell their parents what's going on.

Parents don't know, nor will they ever be told about the abdication of every single one of the senior-most role models of the student standards of conduct. Nor have they been told, nor will they be told about the abject lack of any real institutional ethics or accountability.

Else; let any one of them point to the senior administrator or board member who has, or who ever will promise to hold themselves honestly accountable to the same standards they establish and enforce upon students; the Pillars of Character Counts!, even for the measly few hours a day they're telling students to meet those standards or forfeit their good character.

Point the venue where they can be held honestly accountable for failing to meet ethical standards of conduct.




frame grab Mark Bralley