Role Modeling – school board politics third rail.

How can there be a school board member election during which role modeling never comes up?  Not once, ever.

There are a number of issues that come up in public forums and elsewhere, when prospective school board members are asked what they will do and how they will perform as school board members.

One issue that never comes up is role modeling.

It is the third rail of school board politics.

Why?  In an election where each candidate’s willingness and ability to shoulder the burdens of the senior most role models in the entire school district is arguably one of the most important issues to consider, why does it never come up?

Powerful people do not want role modeling to come up in public discussion.

Powerful people do want to engage in open and honest public discussion of role modeling and of actual accountability to any standards of conduct at all; even the law.

The Journal questionnaire does not include a question on role modeling, standards or accountability.  Never has; never will (barring a change in management).

The leadership of the APS questionnaire (12 questions) does not include a question on role modeling, standards or accountability.  Never has; never will (barring a change in school board membership).

If there is a good and ethical reason to avoid open and honest public discussions of ethics, standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS, that reason is yet to be articulated by either the Journal or the leadership of the APS.

Stonewalling is the only defense of their indefensible position.

That's wrong, right?