"Domenici's long past program Character Counts!"

APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta was testifying under oath this morning about some of the many things that she considers evidence of my mental ill health.

She testified how I just never would stop talking about

United States Senator Pete "Domenici's long past program Character Counts!"

There is a document called the APS Student Behavior Handbook.  In so far as the school board approves it ever year, the handbook is an extension of APS  School Board Policy.

According to the student handbook and school board policy;

Students are expected to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts! Respect, Responsibility, Caring, Fairness, Citizenship and Trustworthiness.

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When my lawyer asked her if she realized that APS Police cars wear an emblem including the six Pillars of Character Counts!, she said no, and still didn't get it.

It is clear from her testimony that she doesn't have the slightest idea what Character Counts! is about.  None of them do.  I would be surprised if any one of them could name the six pillars, much less hold themselves honestly accountable to them.

When the board voted to remove the role modeling clause from their own standards of conduct, they did it, if I remember correctly, by unanimous vote.  It used to read;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult
be  lower than the standards of conduct for students.

Students are expected to hold themselves honestly accountable to a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts! link.

The entire leadership of the APS simply abdicated as senior-most role models of the standards of conduct they establish and enforce upon students.

They've been covering it up ever since.

The ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS is so well covered up that the Executive Director of Communications can look you right in the eye and having sworn a solemn oath and tell you, their obligations as role models of the Pillars of Character Counts! are "long past".






Journal Editor Kent Walz will tell you some day about the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

Before he does, make him tell you why he didn't tell you about it when it began, nearly a decade ago.




photos Mark Bralley