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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting December 1st 2010
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks he can do something better than reason. -Percy Bysshe Shelley The last meeting … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee October 6th 2010 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End This is the next in a series of entirely unauthorised reports from this trustee on board meetings. If this email has made its way into your computer and you are dismayed please … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee September 1st 2010 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End This is the next in a series of totally unauthorised reports from this trustee on board meetings. If this email has made its way into your computer and you are … 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 March 3rd 2010 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee February 17th 2010 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee January 6th 2010 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading
Fewer Trustees- Just Another Cut? December 20 2009
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
Diary of a Mad Trustee December 2nd 2009 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading