Community Alliance For Public Education

  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. – Frank Herbert
Sometimes board meetings are about what [...]

 
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
Fortunately for the sake of my extremely fragile mental well being, I often find tunes running through my head which fittingly accompany whatever may be unravelling at the board table. Sometimes the score from the “Valachi Papers”, sometimes the closing orchestral swell from “Judgement at Nuremburg” or the enduring [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice

 
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
Tonight’s report is odd …more odd than usual. It is about what did not happen at our regular board meeting. We were expecting a draft of a rather rudimentary strategic plan which we have been tangling over for months. I should tell you this has been a most unconstructive [...]