Esquivel; "I'm not an educator."

Some community members are upset that APS has a library named after one of the greatest betrayers of the public trust in state history, Manny Aragon.   KRQE, no link yet, also interviewed some community members who are happy letting bygones be bygones, who thought Aragon's theft of public resources was no big deal, and were happy continuing to hold him up as a role model for students, staff and the elementary school's community members.

School Board enforcer Marty Esquivel

APS School Board Member Marty Esquivel got some more face time on KRQE and responded for the board, on the issue.  He said;

the Board is so busy, it could be months before the board can deal with the issue.

Yet, a cursory examination of the record of past board meetings, link, reveals the cancellation of no fewer than 25 meetings this year alone.  And they were cancelled why?  Too much to do?

The issue of role modeling doesn't resonate with Esquivel.  I have been trying for as long as he has been a school board member, to get him to be a role model of accountability to the same standards of conduct that he establishes and enforces upon students; the Pillars of Character Counts!, link. As a school board member, Esquivel is one of the senior-most role models of student standards of conduct.  During those times he was School Board President, he was the senior-most role model of all.

When I argued, that as an educator, he was obligated to step up as a role model of APS' student standards of conduct, he told me, "I'm not a educator", link.

He's not much of a role model either.  APS student standards of conduct specifically and explicitly require holding oneself honestly accountable.  Esquivel cannot point to any venue where a complaint against him is guaranteed due process.  Where is the venue in APS where I can file a complaint alleging his creation and enforcement of an utterly unlawful restraining order, and see due process?  There is none.

How can one be a role model of accountability without having to demonstrate any real accountability?

NMBA and School Board President Paula Maes

It helps that fellow School Board Member Paula Maes has some juice with NM Broadcasters Association affiliates KRQE, KOAT, and KOB; none of whom will investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.



It helps as well that Esquivel crony, Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz is more than happy to do his part to cover their asses.

Walz is captured here, praising APS Supt Winston Brooks as a Hero of Transparency, while at the same time Brooks was/is hiding public records of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators, link.




photos and Walz frame grab Mark Bralley