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Diary of a Mad Trustee: February 28th, 2007 Quamichan Middle School Closure Meeting

Principiis obsta… Finem respice / Resist the beginning… Consider the end
Well… February 28th has come and gone and as most people know the two little schools, one in Youbou and one in the neighbourhood known as Cowichan Station are gone. Closed as of June this year. No doubt soon to be sold off perhaps to [...]

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: February 7th, 2007 Open Board Meeting

Principiis obsta… Finem respice / Resist the beginning… Consider the end

If you are a stickler for law and procedure but get a little flutter when other people find creative ways to frustrate the course of justice then the meeting on the 7th would have appealed to you no end.
We must go back to October of [...]

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Presentation for the Community Forum

 Sheila Borrowman February 6th 2007
In keeping with CAPE’s original program to support small schools, oppose the assault on public education and resist the anti democratic reshaping of our local governance – the Community Alliance for Public Education –wishes to comment on the closure process and the state of public schools.
Few people in this room are [...]

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Public Education Funding: Who is Responsible?

John Young, a lawyer and long time member of the Victoria school board was successful in his attempt to remove student fees from our public schools. Last September the Supreme Court of BC affirmed that the BC School Act, Section 82 prohibits public schools from charging fees for anything required for learning from Kindergarten to [...]