Why did APS school board members lower student standards of conduct?

Given;

• Student standards of conduct have been lowered .
• School board member standards of conduct have been lowered
• The next superintendent’s standards of conduct have been lowered
• School board members and senior administrators want not to be held accountable as “role models”
• School board members will not respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to legitimate questions about the public interests and their public service, whether asked in person or in writing.

Why would the board want to lower their own standards of conduct?

• School board members and senior administrators are now, arguably unaccountable even to the law ; the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.
• Higher standards of conduct include trustworthiness.

 A 927-word definition of the Pillar of Trustworthiness has been removed from student and school board standards of conduct. The new definition will be determined by school board lawyers in the interests of school board members
Representative samples of those 927 words read;

• Honesty in communications is expressing the truth as best we know it and not conveying it in a way likely to mislead or deceive

• Truthfulness is presenting the facts to the best of our knowledge.

• 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.

• 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.

If the motive of the school board in lowering standards of conduct is not their lack of character and or their lack of courage, then what is it?