Community Alliance For Public Education

 
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
 
                                      I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
                                                                                                                                                    – Jonathan Swift 
In a report or two ago I lamented the sad coincidence between the compliance of boards in passing calamitous budgets and the assertion by our Minister this was an [...]

                                                                                                 Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice 
                                                                                            Resist the Beginning… Consider the End
                             
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
-Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)
Now the board has endorsed the budget and all our fates are confirmed, you would think there would be a bit of [...]

 
                                                                                Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
                                                                             Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
We have a new chair and vice chair as planned and of course there has been a bit of shuffling around to relocate the changed personnel. As usual there is much hope for improvements in the running of meetings and the dominion of the elected over the [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
 
 
This meeting was quite the eclectic mix of the good, the bad and the ugly so this is a bit of a long commentary.
The feature presentation was the tendering of the district achievement contract – due to arrive at the ministry by July 15th and in my view [...]