In one of their first acts since refusing to include “role model” in the list of characteristics required of the next superintendent, the board decided in a committee meeting wherein no public input was allowed, to lower student standards of conduct by removing their basis; the Pillars of Character Counts!
The APS School Board has a Code of Ethics
Their first tenet reads:
“1. Make the education and well-being of students the basis for all decision making; …”
How exactly, how are the education and well-being of students served by lowering their standards of conduct?
The answer is as obvious as it is inexorable.
The well-being of students is not served in the least by lowering their standards of conduct. Quite the opposite; lowering standards of conduct flies
in the face of their best interests.
We will never know the board’s response to that question because they don’t allow questions.
How exactly, how are the education and well-being served by lowering their standards of conduct?
The Albuquerque Public School Board of Education will not respond to that question.
The current student standards of conduct; the ones they intend to delete, read in significant part;
Sincerity is genuineness, being without trickery or duplicity. It precludes 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.And
In relationships involving legitimate expectations of trust, honesty may also require candor, forthrightness and frankness, imposing the obligation to volunteer information that another person needs to know.
The Board of Education’s Code of Ethics is unfortunately, and by their own free admission, completely unenforceable.
Thursday next, will be exactly one day too late to stop the school board from lowering student standards of conduct.
Your silence gives consent
and enables a cover up of an ethics, standards, accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.
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