Thursday, June 25, 2015

Any response except yes, means no, Dr Valentino

If the question is;

are you ready, willing and able to bear the mantle of senior- most administrative role model of student standards of conduct?
any answer except yes, means no.
No answer at all, means no.
Stonewalling, means no.

Role model;
a person looked to by others 
as an example to be imitated.
In the case of APS Supt. Luis Valentino;
a person looked to by students
as an example to be imitated.
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If Luis Valentino intends to continue to expect students to "model and promote" honest accountability to a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct, he is inescapably obligated to show them what that looks like.

If he says nothing; if he does nothing, indicating that he intends to step up as a role model of honest accountability to the standards of conduct he and they establish and enforce upon students, his answer is no;
he does not intend to step up as the senior-most administrative role model of student standards of conduct.

Inconspicuous role modeling is oxymoronic; there is no such thing.  Some where, some time, some place, you have to stand up, draw attention to yourself, and model the behavior you hope to encourage.

Every generation expects the next generation to be the first generation to hold themselves honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct.

Every generation tells the next generation about a young man, a new hatchet and a cherry tree, in the hope that the story will inspire them to embrace higher standards of conduct.  It is nonsense on its face and everybody knows it.  It just that we would rather offer them fiction than our own personal example.  We would just rather not be held actually, honestly accountable to higher standards of conduct than the law.

My every effort to find out if Luis Valentino has the character and the courage to deal ethically and honorably with the double standards of conduct in the APS have been stymied by "protocol".  Unless I want to spring out of a bush somewhere else,  "Protocol" prevents me from asking Luis Valentino, what are his intentions?

Until he answers the question, his own individual position on the role modeling of honest accountability as a role model will remain indistinguishable from those who will not hold themselves honestly accountable to higher standards of conduct, simply because they cannot summon the character and the courage it takes to so do.

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