Willful ignorance

Despite the fact that the Citizens Advisory Council on Communications submitted their Petition to the School Board more than two months ago; Board Member David Robbins swears they never saw it or discussed it. They know nothing.

People sometimes pretend to not know something in order to
escape accountability for not doing something about what they know.

Politicians and public servants are renown for "not knowing".

There is a name for the pretense in this case; willful ignorance.

Willful ignorance is akin to "guilty knowledge"; knowing about corruption and incompetence and doing nothing to expose it. The one worse than the other, mostly by degree. A lack of character leads to one; a lack of courage to the other.

I have been accused of saying all APS administrators and
board members are corrupt or incompetent. The truth is,
all I have ever argued is, there are only two kinds of
administrators and board members;

1. those who are corrupt and/or incompetent, and
2. those with guilty knowledge of administrative and executive incompetence and corruption.

That leaves very few left who want to expose the truth about the corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

Willful ignorance and guilty knowledge sustain cultures of corruption and incompetence. They are the oil for their engines.