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Diary of a Mad Trustee: February 15th, 2006 Open Board Meeting

Hello out there …if you attended the open board meeting last Wednesday February 15th then you might have gone away feeling as if things are not as bad as they seem but don’t be fooled.
It was indeed a meeting that was a bit more dynamic if I could use that word in the context of [...]

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Awards Mask Underfunding

 
While normally it is cause for celebration when an award is received, the recent announcements in our local papers regarding the Ministry of Education’s School Improvement Excellence Awards should instead give us pause for thought.
Five of the province’s 60 ‘winners’ are located in our school district making Cowichan the top recipient of these honours. These [...]

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: February 1, 2006 Open Board Meeting

Held At Chemainus High School
Considering that this meeting was promoted as a community board meeting, it was staged with the usual bland and inaccessible format that would discourage even the most confident participant from seeking any exchange. The main area of interest was the discussion around the Kelsey enrolment donnybrook and this was marked by [...]