Brooks will hold public meeting on discipline

The meeting is critically important because student discipline in the APS is in decline and has been for some time.

Were the situation not in decline, we would have heard as much from APS Executive Director of Communication Monica Armenta.

There would be hoopla and press conferences to tout the improvement.

There would be a page in her calendar dedicated to better behaving students.

Were the situation good, there would be corroborating records and empirical data supporting the claim.

Were the situation good, the Journal editors would be singing high praise for their good friends in the leadership of the APS and their success.

No news means bad news.

Coincidental with the decline in student discipline is the utter abandonment of character education in the APS.

The decline is fact;
the abandonment is fact;
only the correlation remains unexplored.

APS Supt Winston Brooks will hold a public meeting at which he will offer a data rich presentation on student discipline in the APS.

He will cover the history of problems in APS. 

He will explain current efforts to maintain adult authority in classrooms and schools. 

He will present APS' plans for the future, for addressing the issues of student misconduct and chronically disruptive students.

He will take questions from interest holders.

Unfortunately the media will not be able to cover the meeting.

They will be otherwise occupied, reporting on a number of more remarkable events that will happen earlier in the day;

• pigs will fly,
• fish will speak,
• rocks won't sink,
• snakes will smoke,
• frogs will grow hair,
• hell will freeze over,
• chickens will grow teeth,
• fish will climb poplar trees,
• grapes will grow on willows,
• the sun will rise in the west,
• white crows will fly upside down,
• crayfish will whistle on the mountain,
• and, monkeys will fly out of my ass.

Adynatons; wikilink




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