Should APS students learn about character?

Should there be in the APS, a conscientious effort to teach students about character in the hope they will grow into adults holding themselves accountable to "higher" standards of conduct?

Where will that question be discussed; openly, honestly and with meaningful public participation?

Sadly, the answer is nowhere.  There is no place where the senior-most role models of student standards of conduct will sit and discuss their efforts to develop character in students.  Their total investment in character education can be found in the Student Behavior Handbook; "... students are expected to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!"

Ask a student you know, to name all six.

Supt Winston Brooks

There are senior administrators and board members who cannot name all six.

APS' senior-most administrative role model of accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts! Winston Brooks used to have a CC! quilt hanging on the wall outside his office.

It and the attention it drew to Character Counts! are long gone.


 Board Member David Robbins, seen as he was ordering the APS police to eject us, sits below another Character Counts! quilt; less fancy than Brooks' and apparently handmade, perhaps by students, long ago when character still counted in the APS.

Why doesn't the leadership of the APS want to talk openly and honestly about character education in the APS?

I can think of at least one reason; they want to avoid any discussion during which it will be revealed that the entire leadership of the APS has abdicated from their responsibilities as role models of any higher standard of conduct than the law; the lowest standard of conduct, and the highest standard to which they can be held "legally" accountable.

They struck the role modeling clause from their own standards of conduct in an effort to eliminate accountability to higher standards of conduct than the law.  When their own code of conduct read;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

they were, by logical extension, accountable as role models of student standards of conduct; standards that require from them;

more than the law requires and, less than the law allows.

The Journal, Kent Walz and Charlie Moore, has agreed, at least tacitly, to help them cover up the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.   As have those whose fists pound the table last at KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV.

I submit as proof, the self evident scandal and the abject lack of investigation and report by the establishment media.

Do you really believe that if their cronies in the establishment media could report actual, honest accountability to higher standards of conduct than the law, they wouldn't be splashing it all over their front page and our television screens?




Brooks photo Mark Bralley
Robbins ched macquigg