Prophecy easy, with APS

It didn't take a prophet to predict that APS would begin it's evaluation of Supt Winston Brooks in secret.  It required only to have been paying attention.  Nor did it take a prophet to forecast that the Journal was going to ignore the secrecy, again.

I offer another prediction; no prophetic gift,
just paying attention past practice.

School Board Member Lorenzo Garcia has made repeated reference to the need to establish a forum in which the "hard to have" conversations can take place.  Three times at least, he has pointed to the problem, and suggests that he can fix it.

Garcia heads the district's Community and District Relations Committee.  All he has to do, to begin open and honest conversation about where we can have open and honest conversations, is to put it on his agenda, link.  I predict that he will not; not because I'm a prophet, just because I've been paying attention.

To not open the door to candid, forthright and honest two-way communication between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve is Garcia's deliberate decision.

Just as the decision to not have open and honest public discussion of role modeling and the leadership of the APS, was the deliberate decision of Policy and Instruction Committee Chair David Peercy.






Just as the decision to not have open and honest public discussion of due process for whistleblower complaints is the deliberate decision of Audit Committee Chair Marty Esquivel.






Just as the decision to obstruct any investigation that individually identifies corrupt and incompetent administrators and board members is the deliberate decision of School Board President Paula Maes.





Just as the decision to withhold all this from the people, even in the face of school board, mill levy and bond issue elections, is the deliberate decision of the Journal and the rest of the establishment's media.

photos Mark Bralley