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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting October 19th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Six years is a long time to spend in the board room but I have been a willing participant and I have no one to blame but myself. It has not always … Continue reading
Posted in Bill 33, Board Report, Budget Campaign, Classroom Conditions, Collective Agreements, Democracy, Environment, FSA Testing, Funding, Lake Cowichan, Native Community, Provincial Government, School Closure, small schools
Tagged 21st Century Learning, Bill 33, budget, bussing, classroom conditions, democracy, Lake Cowichan, privatisation
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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 Board Report, Budget Campaign, Funding, Provincial Government
Tagged BCTF, Bill 33, budget, classroom conditions, trustees
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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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Posted in Board Report, Budget Campaign, Democracy, Funding, Provincial Government, Strategic Plan
Tagged BCeSIS, budget, classroom conditions, 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 we could … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Campaign, Funding, Labour Unions, Provincial Government, School Closure
Tagged BCeSIS, classroom conditions, CUPE, poverty
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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
Diary of a Mad Trustee June 16th 2010 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting June 2nd 2010
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee May 5th and May 12th 2010 Open Board Meetings/1st and 2nd Reading of the Budget
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. - … Continue reading