Burning children alive

Many years ago, there was in the news,A story about a little girl whose fatherdoused their camper with gasolineand then burned her alive. Compare and contrast to; the deliberate and methodical actions of Senior Administrators in the Albuquerque New Mexico, Public...

When I was a child, there was in the news;

A story about a little girl whose fatherdoused their camper with gasolineand then burned her alive.And now we have;a bunch of Albuquerque Public Schools Senior Administratorssitting around a table and deciding;"If we can put an end to all of these pesky andexpensive fire code...

The "ethically" redacted truth

the story is set in Albuquerque New Mexicoit could have been set in any town in america where thereis a corrupt public school board, with cronies in the local mediaand one lone old shop teacher with a blog and and unabiding interest in holding them accountable. Diogenes'...

Is Character Counts Founding Father Michael Josephson a Dead Beat Dad?

Does a founding father have any obligation to his offspring?  link   

United States Senator Pete Domenici; a Dead Beat Dad?

Senator Pete Domenici is a Founding Father of Character Counts.His paternal obligations are going unmet.  link

The Electric Kool-Aid Asshat Test

Ask any candidate for Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendency if they know what the lone protester's sign read.It read; Do you (the candidates) have the character and the courage to be honestly accountable as a role model of the student standard of conduct;the Pillars of...

Accountability is Fatal to Corruption and Incompetence

The hard part, writes blogger ched macquigg, is creating it.MacQuigg is a retired shop teacher in one of the largest school districts in the country.He has proposed a full scale (forensic) accountability audit of the administration of the Albuquerque Public Schools; and their...

APS "Leadership Vacuum" is a Good Thing.

School board member, Marty Esquivel stepped in for the APS Communications and Community Relations Departments, and for the rest of the leadership of the APS,on the Jim Villanucci show Friday afternoon. He said that, the problems that APS is having, are the result of a...

Albuquerque Public Schools leadership abdicates as role models

Last Wednesday, the APS school board adopted a comparatively meaningless and completely unenforceable code of ethics, as the standard of conduct to which they are "accountable". The decision to renounce their responsibilities as role models is indefensible. Which is why they...

Dear leadership of the APS.

no Administrative Accountability Audit? no absolute transparency? no honest accountability? then No Mill Levy. Sincerely, (your name)

APS leaders and the media are conspiring

to cover up an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the public schools. Together, the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools, the Journal and the Tribune are trying to keep absolute transparency and honest accountability in public service off of...

Albuquerque Public Schools Administrative Accountability Audit

An impartial audit of the leadership of the APS, targeted at uncovering waste, corruption, incompetence, and the practices that enable them; will be vigorously resisted, off the record, by the Leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools. They will enjoy the support of...

The elephant in the room

is now standing on both of your feet, his tail is draped across the top of your head, front to back. If you really can't see him, can't you at least, smell him?  Diogenes'six

Picture a one legged man in a asskicking contest.

I went to the meeting to defend the public forum. The leadership of the APS has moved the public forum off of the pubic record. The action is ethically indefensible. For the fourth time in as many meetings of the board, I was not allowed to speak on the record. (if they...

The APS Office of Equal Opportunity Services

This is the office where the leadership of the APS handles the complaints that people file against senior administrators and board members. EOES Director Charles Becknell and I were having a spirited discussion. He wanted to know why I was filing a complaint against...
 

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