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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting May 18 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Budget 2011/2012 is over and yet as most of you can testify, it is never over when the results are starkly in our faces. Of course, despite all the 4 alarm … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting May 4th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End I suppose the theme of this meeting was decision-making and all the mental and verbal gymnastics we perform as we set the seal on any number of critical details. Let’s talk about … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Campaign, Diary of a Mad Trustee, Funding, Provincial Government
Tagged BCTF, Bill 33, budget, classroom conditions, trustees
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Diary of a Mad Trustee/Open Board Meeting April 20th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End A few things to ponder from this meeting – our much abused ‘Rodney Dangerfield’ policy #1010 which just doesn’t get any respect, the recommendation from one trustee we cancel our membership with … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting April 6th 2011
Good Evening Fellow Earthlings
As I have become fond of saying – this night’s meeting hit bottom and then broke through to a bottom we previously knew nothing about. I have said this before which really makes me wonder if there is a bottom. I will let know if I ever find it.
Here goes – there were quite a few stories in the naked city this night.
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Silence is Acceptance/Budget Timelines and Contact Info
Posted in Diary of a Mad Trustee, Uncategorized
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Is Democracy Simply Unaffordable?
Recently and not for the first time, a proposal has been raised at the school board table to reduce the number of trustees to seven from the current nine. The stated intention is to lead by example and show a … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Provincial Government, SD #79 Administration
Tagged budget, censorship, democracy, trustees
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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting March 2nd 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting – Milan Kundera There must have been a time in the human chronicle … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting February 16th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY -T.H. White – The Once and Future King I love a good meeting theme – many future opportunities for musical theatre or a … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting February 2nd 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank Life at the board coal face is quite the scene, … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee January 19th 2011 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Sometimes I expect to see the camera crew from Punk’d as we wend our way through these meetings. This does not of course mean I spend any more time on … Continue reading