APS Mill Levy and Bond Issue election results disappointing.

On one hand, the leadership of the APS is not entirely incapable building and maintaining buildings. By in large, the nearly third of a billion dollars will be “spent in the interests of students.”

On the other hand, the APS School Board Code of Ethics will remain utterly unenforceable.

The board’s accountability to the NM School Boards Association Code of Ethics will remain a figment of APS School Board President David Peercy’s imagination. His imagination includes honest to God accountability to “the highest standards” of conduct; standards he is yet to specifically identify.

APS’ publicly funded private police force will continue to investigate the criminal misconduct of school board members and administrators and then turn their report and evidence over to the school board, senior administration and to their lawyers.

Stake and interest holders will continue to be told that they are not allowed to ask questions at public forums at school board meetings.

There will continue to be 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 ethical conduct. Their senior most role models are arguably unaccountable even to the law.

The role modeling clause will not be restored to the school board’s standards of conduct. In fact, its restoration will never be discussed in a public meeting. There will be no candor, no forthrightness and, no honesty.

Complainants will continue to be denied due process in complaints filed against board members and administrators.

The leadership of the APS will continue to meet in secret, in meetings they refuse to record, and over which there is no oversight, to spend other tax dollars on cost-is-no-object legal defenses for each other.

The leadership of the APS will continue to squander the public trust and treasure on all the litigation and legal weaselry they can buy to escape accountability to the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.

But what the hell,
at least most of it is being spent in the interests of students.