Journal exposes tip of iceberg; then sails away.

The Journal reports, link, parents at Mission Avenue Elementary School are upset because APS Supt Winston Brooks jerked their beloved Principal without their knowledge, much less their input.

What the Journal did not report is, parents (and other interest holders) all over the District, are upset because APS makes all kinds of decisions, without their input.

They chose to not report that a group called the Citizens Advisory Council on Communication carried a petition with more than 100 signatures on it, asking for standing in their effort to establish open and honest communications between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve, and were denied due process for their petition. They asked for a place to have what Board Member Lorenzo Garcia called the "hard conversations to have"; a place where there will be candid, forthright and honest communication about the public interests, and the board rejected the idea.

Why isn't the Journal reporting on the real dirt in the leadership of the APS; administrative and executive?

Journal Editor Kent Walz
has a personal interest in
making sure that Winston
Brooks looks good.

He is caught here, explaining
at a New Mexico Foundation
for Open Government banquet,
why his buddy Brooks actually
deserves an award as a
"hero of transparency"
(for successfully hiding public
records of a cover up of public corruption in the leadership
of the APS Police force and the APS).


He has a personal interest as well, in protecting his cohort in the phony FOG award, School Board Enforcer Marty Esquivel.

Walz has a personal interest in protecting Esquivel from the consequences of his efforts to contain community input in decision making at every level; including the unlawful restraining order that he and the Chief of the APS Police Steve Tellez cooked up. They are using their publicly funded, private police force as a Praetorian Guard; denying access to public forums and any other opportunity to call them on their corruption and incompetence.

I believe, the Journal sails away from the iceberg with Kent Walz at the helm.

I will bow to controverting fact. Hell, I would bow to a candid, forthright and honest investigation of even one of the credible allegations;

1. There is credible testimony and evidence of public corruption and incompetence, including felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators in APS Police and District leadership, and further, that is being hidden from the District Attorney and other interest holders in violation of the law; the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act,
2. Statistical information on student misconduct, including criminal misconduct, bullying, and chronically disruptive students, is not adequately gathered, kept and or published by the APS.
   
3. There is an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS. The leadership of the APS has abdicated from their responsibilities as role models of the APS student standards of conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!,
   
4. More than 300 whistleblowers are being denied due process of their complaints against administrators and school board members, and
5. The School Board is denying due process to a legitimate petition carrying more than 100 community member signatures.
   

frame grab and Esquivel's photo, Mark Bralley