APS teaching experience a big secret; why?

On Tuesday November 12, 2019, an effort in earnest was begun to find the answers to two questions;

1. How many teachers does APS employ? And
2. How many years of teaching experience have they accumulated between them all?

As of this morning, the data has not been made available still; 19 working days later.

The request has been bouncing around the leadership of the APS.
For some reason, no one will simply answer the questions.
No one will identify anyone who will.

The request ended up on the desk of APS Custodian of Public Records. The request was denied on the basis that a request for information is not a request for records and is therefore lies in some other bailiwick.

The request for information could have been forwarded to an APS Communications Specialist who could at least help move the request along. It was not.

It wasn’t necessary because, the Custodian and Communications Specialist are one and the same person.  Yet nearly a month after asking, the data remains secret. Why?

The information bolsters a compelling argument for empowering educators in the decision making process.

It is hard to argue that people who have accumulated among them, literally tens of thousands of years of teaching experience, much of it in APS schools, have no place at the table where decisions are made.

It would be at least a little bit harder to argue that, educators, having between them 67,554 years of teaching experience, have no seat at the table where decisions are made; the one sounding less like an opinion than the other.

Perhaps there is a disturbing experience drain among APS teachers that needs to be covered up.

Who knows?

More importantly perhaps, why don't they know?