Pounding, and the law

There is an old trial lawyers’ saying, link,

“When the facts are on your side, pound the facts.
When the law is on your side, pound the law.
When neither is on you side, pound the table.”

It occurs to me, there is another kind of pounding that goes on when ethics are not in play;

When neither the law, nor the facts are on your side,
pound on the complainant.

It is the kind of law practiced by the leadership of the APS by and through their lawyers.

Proof? The Council of the Great City Schools Audit found;

"... a culture of fear of retribution and retaliation ..." against complainants.

A culture!

Not an isolated incident, not a pocket of, not an occasional lapse into; they found that the "the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge which are transmitted and reinforced" by the leadership of the APS created (and still create) a culture of fear over the filing of complaints against corrupt and incompetent administrators.