Esquivel on tap for tonight

School Board Member Marty Esquivel will host District Goals Community Meeting, link, at Jefferson Middle School tonight.

He and the rest of the leadership team will spend two or three hours trying to convince stakeholders that they are being listened to; that two-way communication is taking place.

Any good and ethical definition of "two-way communication" in this context, would include, the opportunity to ask any legitimate question and expect a candid, forthright and honest response.

Yet if you ask;

• why they will not publish an ethically redacted version of the Caswell Report, or
• why they have not given District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, the evidence they have collected of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators, or
• why they will not provide a role modeling clause in their own standards of conduct, or
• why they will not allow an independent audit of APS administrative and executive standards and accountability, or
• why they will not provide due process for more than 300 whistleblower complaints, or
• why they will not give due process to the Citizen's Advisory Council Petition?

neither APS Supt Winston Brooks, nor Marty Esquivel will respond candidly, forthrightly or honestly.

If you ask Esquivel;

• what authority he has to create an unlawful restraining order to stifle dissidence, or
• what authority he has to order the APS Police Department to enforce the unlawful order, or
• why he will not hold himself honestly accountable as a role model of the standards of conduct he establishes and enforces upon students, or
• why he opposes the independent standards and accountability audit he once championed, and
• why he went along with Paula Maes when she declared her opposition to any audit that would individually identify corrupt or incompetent administrators?

he will not respond candidly,
forthrightly and honestly.

He will dodge the question
and attack the questioner.

It's just the way he rolls;
he's a thug.

If you ask Esquivel's crony
Journal Managing Editor
Kent Walz, why none of this
is newsworthy, he will join Esquivel in denying you a candid, forthright and honest response.

It's just the way they all roll.




photo Mark Bralley