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
                                          
 I don’t usually make the classic error of speaking to the unmovable people at the top of the heap. I have found it is a waste of time, vigour and thought. However, as the Minister of Education has chosen to interpret the posting of compliance [...]

 
                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
                                                                                    - Henry David Thoreau 
In the last two weeks on three separate evenings, we have had 1st reading of the cutback budget [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
Tonight something rather quiet but significant happened. Very few people in the room would be aware and why would they? Sometimes you pass a policy or a revised policy and it all seems somewhat pedestrian. As was the 2nd and 3rd reading of our fully reworked Disposal of Land [...]