Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Will questions be allowed at the APS candidate forum?

The short answer is no of course, as their "armed and loaded", link, police force will stand between me and any opportunity I might have to ask a question.

On a broader level, will others who are allowed in, be able to ask questions?

The commitment the leadership of the APS made in their flier is;

You are invited to meet and ask questions of the school board candidates ...
Past practice is that questions will be written down and collected.
The stack will be dutifully massaged by representatives of the League of Women Voters, who will then select and word the questions according to their needs and interests.

I have yet to see them ask an inconvenient question.
  • Why are findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators, being kept secret from public knowledge?
  • Why is due process being denied to hundreds of whistleblower complaints?
  • Why will there be no audit of administrative standards and accountability, that individually identifies corrupt and incompetent administrators?
  • Why will they not produce a candid, forthright and honest accounting of spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd?
  • Why are the senior most role models of APS Student Standards of Conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!, unwilling to hold themselves honestly accountable to the standards they establish and enforce upon students?
  • Why will the board not restore the role modeling clause to their own standards of conduct? one which reads; 
  • In no case shall the standards of conduct for adults
    be lower than the standards of conduct for students.
  • Why are the efforts of the Citizens Advisory Council on Communications to establish open and honest, two-way communication between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve, being thwarted?
Nor is there any reasonable expectation that they will start asking inconvenient questions tonight.

I am banned from asking those questions and others, by School Board enforcer Marty Esquivel's abusive use of a public funded private police force, accountable to no one except the leadership of the APS.  His fully armed and armored Praetorian Guard stands between me and the free exercise of my Constitutionally protected human right to go to a school board candidate forum and ask questions about the public interests, and about their public service.

The Journal will not ask them inconvenient questions.
The news directors and owners of KRQE, KOAT, KOB, and KKOB will not ask them inconvenient questions.

Somebody should do something.

Tonight, 6pm, 6400 Uptown Blvd.


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