Dear Education Secretary-Designate Skandera

It was recently wondered aloud, whether Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera could be talked into suspending the APS Board of Education like she did the one in Questa.

It is an interesting question worthy of pursuing in an open letter to the Secretary-Designate.

What have we got to loose?

Dear Secretary Skandera,

I write in the hope that you will intervene in a situation quite similar to the situation in Questa; a school board failing to meet NM PED standards.

Specifically;

1. They are complicit in, or complacent about, an internal cover up of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators.
2. They are employing a publicly funded private police force, a Praetorian Guard, to limit the free exercise at school board meetings, of Constitutionally protected human rights to speak freely and to petition one's government for redress of grievances.
3. They have abdicated as role models of student standards of conduct.  There are two standards of conduct in the APS; student standards and, administrative and executive standards.  Students are expected to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!; a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct.  Administrators and board members hold themselves accountable only to the law and whatever their legal weaselry will allow them.
4. They are denying due process to hundreds of whistleblower complaints against administrators and board members.
5. They are hiding statistics on criminal behavior in schools.  They are hiding public records related to student discipline, bullying, and employee morale.
6. The School Board freely admits, they are absolutely unaccountable to their own code of conduct.  They provide no avenue of redress over which they have no undue influence, and powerful enough to hold them accountable even against their will.
7. Their School Board President is publicly slandering me in retaliation for my efforts to hold her accountable for her public service.
8. Their former President, now enforcer Marty Esquivel, created an unlawful restraining order and ordered their uniformed and armed Praetorian Guard to enforce it, denying my liberty and my right to present my petition face to face.

It is my belief that the situation warrants investigation and a report to stake and other interest holders.

I would be deeply grateful for your time and attention.

ched macquigg




photo Mark Bralley

cc upon posting, except that the NM PED website constituent services contact seems to be not working.  I'll keep trying.