APS Student Standards of Conduct to be Lowered

There are in the APS, double standards of conduct. According to School Board Policy and the APS Student Handbook; students are expected to “model and promote (honest accountability to) the Pillars of Character Counts!; a nationally recognized, accepted and respected Code of Ethical Conduct.

School board members and senior administrators are arguably unaccountable even to the law; the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.

There are three ways out their hypocrisy;

1. They can continue to stonewall; refusing to discuss openly and honestly, their ethics, standards, accountability and their obligations as role models of accountability to the same standards of conduct that they establish and enforce upon students.

2. They can raise their own standards of conduct to equal those they expect from students. They can replace the role modeling clause in their own standards of conduct; in no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

3. They can lower student standards to standards low enough that they are willing to role model accountability to them.

New Mexico Broadcasters Association affiliate stations, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV similarly refuse to send their “investigative” reporters to expose the scandal, or to report that there is not one. To wit; APS board members and senior administrators are actually, honest to God accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence within their public service.

They could raise their own standards of conduct.

They choose the third alternative. On Wednesday the 12th, at a Policy and Instruction Committee Meeting beginning before most people get off work, and during which public input will not be allowed, the APS school board intends to remove the language that establishes higher standards for students and consequently of course, for their senior-most adult role models. Had they any.

At their last meeting, Wednesday the 5th, the board made a deliberate decision to not add “role model” to their “desired characteristics” in their next superintendent.

Those who we rely on to report the news will not.
If they show up at all, they will not report upon what they witness.