APS classrooms and schools are out of control

Or are they?

Chronically disruptive students are interfering with the education of other students.

Or are they?
It should be disturbing that there is no data to examine. More disturbing still; that that data is not being collected in the first place. Audit findings indicated that school principals routinely under report criminal activity on their campuses in the interests of maintaining a public image.

Ayn Rand argued that to fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

The out of control in APS schools and classrooms represents an executive and administrative failure. The board has failed to create policies that address the out of control. The administration has failed to enforce consistently, the policies that the board has written.

Or, everything is just fine.

The Journal could assign a report to investigate and report upon discipline in APS classrooms and schools. They have not. Ever.

If it could be argued; classrooms and schools are not out of control; chronically disruptive students are not interfering in the education of other students, then that would be good news.

The Journal cannot be accused of under reporting the good news about APS.
The Journal can be accused of under reporting the bad news; the news that reflects poorly on the most powerful people in the APS.

They can be accused of under reporting on discipline in the APS and of under reporting the underlying ethics, standards and accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS that is causing it.

They are so accused.