In 1994, the APS Board of Education created ethical standards of conduct for students and for their adult role models including school board members and senior administrators. Then, in response to efforts to hold them accountable to the resolution;

>In 2005, the board voted unanimously to remove the role modeling clause from their own standards of conduct. Since, the board has relentlessly refused to reinstate the clause or discuss it publicly.


It had read; in no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards of conduct for students

>In 2007, state and federal felony criminal misconduct was reported in the leadership of APS’ publicly funded private police force. Investigations were undertaken and the reports have been hidden by the board in violation of the NMIPRA.

>No evidence was ever turned over to the District Attorney for prosecution.

>The board is negligently allowing or knowing permitting the Operational Fund to be spent on cost-is-no-object legal defenses. As a consequence, insurance premiums have been raised and, dollars destined for classrooms have be diverted to litigation and legal weaselry instead. School board members and senior administrators are arguably unaccountable even to the law.

>The board has made a deliberate decision “role model” will not be included in the “desirable characteristics” of the next superintendent.

>The board has lowered student standards of conduct by removing from them, higher standards of conduct; specifically, deleting a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct. In so doing, they have lowered their own standards of conduct.

>School Board President David Peercy and the board claim that student standards have not been lowered by removing higher standards of conduct from them.


The people whose job it is to inform the Democracy, the Journal, KOB, KOAT, and KRQE TV refuse to investigate and report upon clear and unequivocal evidence and a record of an ethics, standards, accountability and role modeling scandal in the leadership of the APS.


How can that be explained?


Except for their complacency about, and or complicity in, the cover up of the scandal, how can their ongoing refusal to report upon the scandal be explained?


I cannot imagine even one such explanation,

Neither apparently, can any one of them.


And they have been asked to do so; over and over and over again.