APS School Board Member Ethics, Standards, Accountability and Role Modeling Audit Bullet Points

• You, the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education, voted unanimously to remove a code of ethical conduct from student standards of conduct.

• You claim to have done it on the basis of the “education and well-being of students”.

• You claim that removing a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct from student standards of conduct did not lower them

• You, as the senior-most executive role models in the APS, will not admit that student standards of conduct are your own; that in no case shall your standards of conduct be lower than the standards that you establish and have enforced upon students.

• You refuse to reinstate your role modeling clause; in no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

• You claim to be role models, but cannot point to actual standards and due processes that guarantee your performance in that role or any other.

• You voted unanimously and deliberately to not include the words “role model” among your requirements of the next superintendent; the senior-most administrative role model in the APS.

• You will not explain or defend your unwillingness to be held actually, honestly accountable of any standards of conduct at all, even the law.

• Not one of you now, nor any school board member in 25 years, nor any superintendent in 25 years has been willing to hold themselves accountable to the same standards of conduct that they establish and enforce upon students.

• Not one of you ever, has been willing to hold themselves accountable to any standard of conduct that required your candor, forthrightness and honesty.

• And you still are not.

And you still are not, having just removed a standard from your own standards of conduct precluding "... all acts, including half-truths, out-of-context statements, and even silence, that are intended to create beliefs or leave impressions that are untrue or misleading.
Like the misleading impression that you are actually honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence within your public service.