Community Alliance For Public Education

The Community Alliance For Public Education Web Site provides information on the state of Public Education in the Cowichan Valley, here on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
This site was reworked in 2005, when Eden Haythornthwaite became our CAPE school trustee. In the last four years information technology and people’s access to it has changed dramatically. [...]

HI Friends – we had our CAPE meeting on Monday the 27th of April from 5 to 7 pm in my living
room and though we only had four in attendance there was a range of discussion and strategising.
As usual we always try to do two things – one is to have those at the table [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
Let’s see – it was quite the eclectic buffet- this meeting. Just before the open regular meeting we had a presentation of the architect’s conclusions about the ABG site out at the Lake. We had a bizarre little lesson in free enterprise ( for that read legislated piracy) [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
 
There is nothing quite like the sound of a fresh, new line of thinking being unveiled at a meeting – brave,principled,practical -unfortunately  the  shallow concept now being offered up before the public in Cowichan regarding the extension of the spring break  does not fall into this category. It [...]