Dr. David Peercy’s boggle

David Peercy is the President of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education.

He is doing everything in his power to prevent an open and honest public discussion of ethics, standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS. He has been for as long as he has been on the board.

In part, his expressed resistance is based on his belief that he is already accountable to standards of conduct that are higher than the standards of conduct he and the board have established for students.

He is yet to address the issue that the school board’s own Code of Ethics, by their free admission, is utterly unenforceable.

Peercy writes;

Being a role model indeed means that employees, including board members, are in fact held to a higher standard of conduct than those persons (eg students) who would benefit from the role model. That is the requirement for all APS employees.
He cites; GB2 Staff Standards of conduct. https://www.aps.edu/about-us/policies-and-procedural-directives/policies/g.-personnel/gb2-staff-standards-of-conduct

Let’s take a look.

According to GB2, (here quoted in significant part), Peercy claims he

“… shall maintain the highest standard of conduct and act in a mature and responsible manner at all times”.
“… shall maintain appropriate professional behavior …”
“… shall serve as positive role models for students and set good examples in conduct, manners, dress and grooming”.

According to the standards of conduct to which the school board holds students accountable, students

shall be trustworthy

• Honest in communications; expressing the truth as best they know it
• Sincere; precluding all acts, including half-truths, out-of-context statements, and even silence, that are intended to create beliefs of leave impressions that are untrue or misleading
• Candid, forthright and honest
• Keep their promises and avoid bad faith excuses

That is only scratching the surface of one of the six Pillars.

On their face, the student standards of conduct are obviously higher that adult standards of conduct per school board policy.

Sadly, there isn’t one whit of difference between the highest standards of conduct and the lowest, if neither can be enforced.