Oma on Board

"APS seeking input on community relations"

reads the Journal headline.

According to the Journal arm of the APS communications effort;

Albuquerque Public Schools wants public comment as it considers changing the way it engages families and the community. A meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Monday (Oct 8th) at the APS Building, 6400 Uptown NE.

The leadership of the APS wants

“... to expand (their) efforts to make sure we are providing ways to get input and engage the Albuquerque community.”

The meeting will be held in their castle keep, wikilink, behind their Praetorian Guard.

The twins; still no candid, forthright and honest accounting of spending, link

By holding the meeting in the twins, they can use their publicly funded private police force to arrest anyone who might want ask them why they won't tell us how they spent our money fixing the place up.

Are school board members sitting in chairs that cost taxpayers $800 apiece?

The leadership of the APS never had to justify building the board room in the first place, much less the little stuff like $800 dollar chairs. At the time, students had far more pressing needs than board members and senior administrators, and the establishment's press gave them a bye on investigating and reporting upon the debacle.

The Journal can get in, but they won't ask for a simple accounting of how they spend our tax dollars, even on the eve of another bond issue election.

They've been not asking for a long time, link.

So have Paula Maes' cronies at KRQE, KOAT, and KOB.

photo Mark Bralley

Two weeks later, bullying forum "notes" still not posted.

The leadership of the APS is fond of wading in among the great unwashed, to "gather their input". They are there instead, to improve APS' perception among interest holders. They are there to schmooze.

They would have us never mind, the single most effective thing they could do to improve their public perception would be to improve their performance.

Rather than talk about their failure to (substantially) improve their performance; they go out to "gather input".

Every time they gather input, they promise or imply, the input they gathered will be compiled and shared with stakeholders. If you filed a Request for Public Records you might get to see some notes, but nobody else will.

They always promise to share with us, what they learned.
But they never do. They can't, because they can't point to
a single thing they learned,
that they should not have already known.

Search their award winning websites for the forums on preventing bullying. You will find information about the (upcoming) meetings which were held on Sept 18th and 20th, but you won't find any mention of what happened at them; that they were challenged to produce data on bullying in APS, or that they were challenged to talk about the viability of character education as one solution.

They're spending a million dollars a year in an effort spin the truth about their stewardship over control over our power and resources.

They would have us "support their potential"
before we examine their failures.

Journal Editor Charlie Moore abets,
KRQE, KOAT, and KOB abet.

Were it not that Esquivel and Maes would have me arrested for doing so,

I would be at the public forum at the school board meeting tomorrow night.

I will not be there because a publicly funded private police force will stand in my way. The APS Police will stand between me and my free exercise of my Constitutionally protected human rights.

They will stand there, with their guns, their mace, tasers, handcuffs and their badges; every cop tool there is, except a running tape recorder, and deprive me of my liberty.

Were it not for an utterly unlawful abuse of public power and resources in behind School Board enforcer Marty Esquivel's utterly unlawful restraining order, I would exercise my right to speak freely and to petition my government for redress of my several legitimate grievances.

Peercy, Robbins and Esquivel tossing us from an Audit Committee meeting.

They deprive me of my liberty; they would arrest me,
for the 17th time.

Journal City Editor Charlie Moore can't see a story here.
Nor can his counterparts at KRQE, KOAT, or KOB.

Kind of hard to believe, isn't it.

photos Mark Bralley