Do APS students have a right to role models?

Fact; There is not one single school board member or senior administrator willing to be held actually and honestly accountable as a role model of accountability to the same standards of conduct they establish and enforce upon students.

What are those standards?  What are the standards of conduct to which students are expected to hold themselves accountable?

By unanimous school board resolution in 1994, a set of standards was adopted for students.  The resolution has been neither amended nor rescinded.  The board is acting as if their resolution is no longer binding.  When prompted to revisit the resolution, to clear up any confusion, the board chose to ignore the prompt, link.

It is fair to say; the board refuses to revisit the resolution.

There is only reason to hide the truth and that is to avoid the consequences of the truth being known.

The truth is;
the Albuquerque Schools Board of Education unanimously resolved to adopt higher standards of conduct for students.  A specific nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct was identified; the Pillars of Character Counts!

Within their resolution, the following specific resolve;
"That the Albuquerque Public Schools is committed to creating models of ethical behavior among all adults who serve students and schools".

They promised to hold themselves accountable as the senior most role models of accountability to the higher standards of conduct they established and have enforced upon students.

In the face of efforts to hold them honestly accountable as role models of higher standards of conduct, the board voted in unison again; to remove from their own standards of conduct a clause which had read;
in no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

Since that night; there have been double standards of conduct in the APS.  Students are expected, in defense of their good character, to hold themselves accountable to higher standards of conduct than the law; to expect from themselves “more than the law requires and less than the law allows”.  Their senior most role models are arguably unaccountable even to the law; the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.

The leadership of the APS has a record.  It is off unlimited spending on litigation and legal weaselry in order to except themselves from accountability.

The APS school board is unaccountable to their own Code of Ethics.

If voters believe that students have a right to adult role models, they should not vote for candidates who are not willing to shoulder those obligations.  The most important duty of a role model is to stand up; to speak out.  There are no inconspicuous role models; the concept is oxymoronic.

Candidates who are unwilling to discuss their obligations as the senior most role models in the entire APS cannot be role models.

If we really want students to grow into adults who embrace character and courage and honor, someone is going to have to show them what those look like.

William Inge wrote; the proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Character is taught by personal example. 
Character is taught only by personal example.

The senior most role models in the APS cannot be role models of character and the courage, without requiring from themselves, both character and courage.