Board continues to dis petitioners

Petitioners have heard from the APS School Board again.

Instead of a good faith response to their petition for District support of their effort to open two-way communication between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve, they have been given, link, the times and places of a months long process heading toward a completely different objective.

Petitioners have expressed one interest; facilitating open and honest two-way conversations, and that expressed interest is unrelated to the district's expressed interest; "developing goals".

What are petitioners supposed to do, try to get the District to adopt a communications goal?

"Communication" has been a district goal for years; they have spent millions of dollars on "communication". How much good has it done? ... zip, zero, nada, squat; that's how much good it has done.

Petitioners are being denied due process.

If nothing else, due process for the petition requires the school board to offer a good faith response; to discuss, consider and act upon the petition in a public meeting and on the record. The board has chosen another path.

Though the school board,
to a member, share the lack of character and courage to begin open and honest two-way communication on legitimate issues, they have allowed Board President Paula Maes to write their response to the petition, a response she had no authority (as an individual board member) to write.

They are content to let the lame duck board member take the heat for them while they hide from the consequences of their individual lack of character and courage.

They are content to duck a public meeting where they will have to discuss and act upon the petition; a meeting where they will have to own their position on open and honest communications.

If there is another reason the school board will not give the petition the due process to which it is entitled, other than their individual and collective lack of character and courage, the board would be the recipient of a huge favor if someone, anyone, could point to it for them.




photo Mark Bralley