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Diary of a Mad Trustee November 2nd 2011 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End I know you know we are in the midst of an election campaign and though there is a sad deficit of interest in the school board I always tell people … Continue reading
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 August 31st 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End God!! I do not want to engage in the usual patter about returning to the salt mines and how terrible it all is to be back in harness after a … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting June 15th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End This was the last meeting of the school year and even trustees are getting time off for good (or bad) behaviour. No point in whinging now – but this … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Classroom Conditions, Democracy, Funding
Tagged budget, censorship, classroom conditions, democracy, Howard Zinn, trustees
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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 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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Posted in Board Report, Budget Campaign, Democracy, Funding, Provincial Government, Strategic Plan
Tagged BCeSIS, budget, classroom conditions, democracy, trustees
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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 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 Open Board Meeting January 5th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once … Continue reading