The leadership of the APS is deceiving stakeholders

They would have you believe that they possess individually and collectively, the character and the courage to communicate openly and honestly about administrative and executive standards of conduct and competence. They would have you believe they have the character and the courage to defend their actual, honest accountability to those standards.

The truth is, they really won't be doing either. The only reason they say they will is because they know they never will.

Else, why are we not now talking, openly and honestly, about the student standards of conduct, and about the responsibilities and obligations of their role models?

Are students "... expected to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!" or are they not? Are administrators and board members supposed to be role models? And does that not make them actually and honestly accountable to the same standards of conduct they establish and enforce upon students? Does that not make them actually and honestly accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts!

If they have the character and the courage to communicate openly and honestly; why will they not?

Why will they not?

Except that they lack, individually and collectively, the character and the courage to step up as role models of a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct, and they don't want to admit it.

Paula Maes would have you believe she has character and courage; for a while she was the chair of the Character Counts! Leadership Council. But she will not communicate to you why she said that she "... will never agree to any audit that individually identifies ..." corrupt and incompetence administrators and board members.

David Robbins would have you believe he has character and courage, but he will not explain why he reneged on the board's solemn commitment to whistleblowers; to address the appearance of a conflict of interest in having administrators adjudicating whistleblower complaints against other administrators, by promising individual review and approval of their complaint by the entire board.

He will not communicate to his constituents about his failure to honor his campaign pledge to fight for the reinstatement of the role modeling clause in adult standards of conduct.

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult,
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

Marty Esquivel would have you believe he has character and courage; but he will no communicate openly and honestly about his opposition to the district wide standards and accountability audit, and his unwillingness to put standards and accountability on the table for open and honest discussion, link. Nor will he communicate openly and honestly about his abdication from the obligations and responsibilities of the senior-most role model of the student standards of conduct.

Nor will he communicate openly and honestly about the suppression of an ethically redacted version of the Caswell Report on felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators. He will not answer your legitimate question about why evidence is being hidden from the District Attorney, still; four years later and while statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct expire.

David Peercy would like you to believe he has character and courage, yet he will not allow public discussion on whether the role modeling clause should be restored to the board's standards of conduct.

4 of 7 makes a majority; the rest are complicit, complacent, or incompetent to the job; it makes no difference because they make no difference. They picked the wrong side when they didn't stand up for the right side.

Role modeling by its fundamental nature, has to be conspicuous. Not one of them will stand up in front of students and the community and swear honest accountability to the same standards of conduct they establish and enforce upon students, even for the few hours a day they are enforcing them.

When the question is;

Do you intend to hold yourself honestly accountable as
a role model of the student standards of conduct, in the
only way you can, by holding yourself honestly accountable to those same standards?

any answer except yes, means no.


Kent Walz would like you to believe he (and the Journal) have character and courage; yet he will not investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.




So are you going to believe what they want to believe about the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, or
are you going to believe your lyin' eyes?




photos Mark Bralley