Rio Grande High School; Looking past the haircut

There are two unresolved issues at Rio Grande High School. I will begin by acknowledging no personal experience at that school. I will bow to any controverting fact. The first issue is that it is yet to be resolved; who is in charge at the school, the staff or the...

Power and honest accountability vary inversely.

Powerful people can break the rules; and then dodge accountability. APS leaders have broken the rules and are dodging accountability. Consider what you have seen with your own eyes. Nine times the Superintendent and School Board Members have been asked to hold themselves...

Why do I keep asking the same question over and over?

I have been asking this question since 1994; the year I was trained in Character Counts. It is my absolute conviction that we must raise the next generation of adults to embrace accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct. It is the principle we illustrate when we...

Mayor Chavez lets APS Leaders slide on accountability

I asked Mayor Chavez to go to the school board meeting. I asked him to ask the board to respond to the following question. As the senior roles models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters, as stewards of the public trust and treasure, and as public servants; are you willing...

Freedom of Speech, Bush Supporter Style

"Albuquerque resident Roberto Vasquez decided that he'd celebrate Christmas with a unique light display. "Raw Story: Roberto Vasquez of Albuquerque said his sign, showing George Bush's name crossed over by a red bar as though banning it, has caused people to shoot at the...

Honest videographer needed to record board meeting

Not once have constituents who watch board meetings on TV, seen the faces of board members and the superintendent as they refuse to hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. Their faces have been deliberately edited out of the broadcast...

The Principal, the student, the haircut

What ever the truth is about the situation; it will never be heard by an impartial third party. APS Leaders dodge accountability through a system that guarantees that if a complaint is made against them, it will be adjudicated by someone whose first interest is in damage...

We’re gonna need more people.

The question is; should school board members, as role models, as stewards of the public trust and treasure, and as public servants; be honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. That, as the most fundamental prerequisite for all three roles. We need people...

It’s time for someone else to stand up

If we want our children to grow into adults who are willing to hold themselves accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct; we are obligated to show them what that looks like. I am not the only person who has said that. It has been said by Michael Josephson, the founding...

“What I’m after is accountability”,

says Mayor Martin Chavez. “What I’m after is accountability”, Says Ched MacQuigg; the guy who keeps asking APS Leaders to answer the same question. Will you hold yourself honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct? “Seems unlikely” says the...

The Journal’s agenda for the APS

It would appear that the AlbuquerqueJournal is four square in support of Mayor Marty’s plan to take over control of the APS. How else would you explain two pages of coverage of how mayors can fix ailing school systems, and still not one word about the upcoming school board...

Talk about the emperor’s clothes.

Political power and honest accountability vary inversely. A situation diametrically opposite the need. Yet no one will talk about it. except at Diogenes'six

Journal and Tribune place upcoming school tax issue at risk

Albuquerque voters have a history of sound financial support for the APS. They also have a history of misgiving about the stewards of their trust and treasure; the Leadership of the APS. Because they have no control over the quality of the leadership; they respond in the...

Albuquerque Journal and Tribune betray their community

All standards great and mean are meaningless without accountability. Without accountability, the most respected standard is just so many words. It serves no good. It is all about accountability. The Leaders of the APS maintain the wherewithal to dodge accountability. Whether...

Streetcars; or 89,000 of our sons and daughters?

If there is time enough to get a street car on the February ballot; there is time enough to put an alternative on the ballot. Instead of buying a trolley car, we will invest in our children. The stewards of our money will be men and women who are willing to be held honestly...