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
 
 
“More than at any other time in history, humanity faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose wisely.”
This has always been one of my favourite Woody Allen quotes. It sums [...]

                                                                   
       Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice 
       Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so [...]

                                                           
                                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice 
                                                                  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
I sometimes imagine the dossier all the countless letters from trustees around the province are dispatched to at the Ministry of Education and what sort of company they must be keeping.
 I assume our entire correspondence are in the same file as the eight million emails from [...]