Open letter to APS School Board Member Elizabeth Armijo

With regard to your umbrage regarding the justification for removing mention of the Pillars of Character Counts! from student, and by logical extension school board member standards of conduct.

You objected to the justification; APS personnel do not model these characteristics for students.

Yet you cannot name a single school board member or senior administrator who has ever expressed their intention to be held accountable to the same standards of conduct that are established for and enforced upon students; the Pillars of Character Counts!

I will bow as always to controverting evidence; name them.

You are APS personnel. You have been asked legitimate questions.

Student standards of conduct, the Pillars of Character Counts! until you lower them, require students to respond to legitimate questions candidly, forthrightly and honestly.

Neither you nor any other board member will respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to the following questions;

Is the 1994 School Board Resolution, creating high standards for students and adult role models of those standards which has been neither amended nor rescinded, still binding? If not why not?

Why are you obstructing the replacement of a role modeling clause in your own standards of conduct? The old one read; in no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

If you or anyone else in the leadership of the APS was modeling honestly accountable to student standards of conduct, you would respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly.

If you were actually accountable as a role model, you could be held accountable for not responding. Where exactly, can that complaint be filed?

Your own Code of Ethics is, by the board’s own free admission, utterly unenforceable.

Walk your talk

grateful for your time and attention

ched macquigg

cc Board of Ed to whom the same challenge is individually extended.