APS Custodian of Records; hysterical!

I have been trying for two months to find out;

1. how many teachers are working for the APS, and
2. how many years of experience they have between them.

Two months later, the best that the Custodian of Records/Communications Specialist can do, seriously, the very best they can do is to refer me to the salary list for everyone who works for the APS.

I am apparently supposed to sift through the list all 12,142 of them ferreting out and counting teachers. LOL

The Custodian of Records claims there is no record of accumulated years of teaching experience. Odd, since every year, the district is reimbursed by the state specifically for the years of teaching experience for which they compensate teachers.

Else, districts would hire inexperienced teachers to keep district costs down.

It reminds me of the time I asked for a videotape of a board meeting. They played it on a TV somewhere and taped it with some crappy camera and produced a copy of that. Funny they are.

The whole thing stops being funny when you thing about the fact that the Custodian of Records is;

• a public servant
• on the public dime,
• goaded on by administrators 
• on the public dime
• egged on by lawyers eager to litigate
• on the public dime.

Eager to bank more of the Operational Fund; money that could, should and would be spent in classrooms were it and the public trust not being squandered in courtrooms instead.

There is an ethics, standards, accountability and role modeling scandal in the leadership of the APS. Or they could prove that there isn’t.

They could point to;

Ethics and standards high enough to protect the public interests in the public schools, and to

Honest to God accountability to those ethics and standards,

Visible enough to serve as models for staff and students to emulate.

There aren’t those. Obviously.

The Emperor has no clothes.