Déjà vu all over again?

Journal editors are upset again, link - over misbehaving soccer parents.
 
On Tuesday, August 05, 2008, the Journal published an article called Code of Conduct for APS Parents, link.
 
Nothing has changed in the intervening decade.

Perhaps it is because people, who are unwilling to enforce ethical codes of conduct upon themselves, find it impossibly difficult to enforce ethical codes of conduct upon others.

About two years before the 2008 article, the leadership of the APS had decided to abdicate their responsibilities as the senior most role models of student standards of conduct.  They took a vote one night, and voted unanimously, to remove from their own standards of conduct, a role modeling clause .  It had read;

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

Their abandonment of their responsibilities as role models represented, and still does, the end of any district wide effort to grow character in students; to teach them how to behave at soccer games.

Since their abdication en masse, there have been double standards of conduct in the APS; students are expected to model and promote honest accountability to a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethics while their senior most executive and administrative "role models" are arguably unaccountable even to the law.

There is not a single school board member or senior administrator anywhere in the entire leadership of the APS who will be held honest to God accountable to the same standards of conduct that they establish and enforce upon students.

Not one.

I've asked.

You would be hard pressed to find more than one or two of them who know what are the APS student standards of conduct.  They are, and have been since the passage of a school board resolution in 1994, the Pillars of Character Counts! link  A more precise delineation lies in a booklet named Making Ethical Decisions link. 

If any of them are honestly accountable to meaningful (higher) standards conduct, wouldn't they be proud to publish them?  If they are actually, honestly accountable to those standards, wouldn't they be as proud to point to the due processes they make available to stake and interest holders?

There is only one reason to hide the truth; 
to avoid the consequences of the truth being known.

Something to think about in light of up coming elections, in which the leadership of the APS claims fitness as stewards of nearly a third of a billion dollars.  In that endeavor, they are utterly unaccountable to their own code of ethics in spending those dollars in the best interests of students.

When will the Journal write an editorial calling for an executive and administrative standards and accountability audit?  

When will it be shown at once and for all, that the leadership of the APS are or are not honest to God accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence at least for those hours in the day when we are compelled to lay our trust and treasure in their hands.

It could be argued, based on the history of the board and the Journal in the more than a decade since the ethics, standards and accountability crisis manifest itself in the removal of the role modeling clause, a number of other things will likely occur first.

• 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