Brooks era over. Really?

If we are talking about the time when Winston Brooks was the sitting Superintendent of the APS, then yes, the Brooks era is over.

If we're talking about the leadership culture of the APS, their way of doing things, the Brooks era isn't over; it never began.  The culture that greeted him is the culture he leaves behind.

There hasn't been a fundamental change of course in the leadership, in more than a century.

If it ever was not a good ol' boy oligarchy; loose standards and looser accountability, I would like to know when that was.

I have long argued that if ever the leadership of any endeavor finds itself honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence; it will always find itself accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

Leaders who are honestly and actually accountable to meaningful standards of conduct would never find themselves in a position where they would be able to lower standards or lessen the accountability without themselves being held accountable.

Time for a clean sweep of the leadership and a new course; beginning with, I hope, honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence at least for those few hours a day they are expect that of students.