-
Recent Posts
Meta
Category Archives: Funding
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, Budget Campaign, Classroom Conditions, Collective Agreements, Democracy, Diary of a Mad Trustee, 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
Leave a comment
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, Diary of a Mad Trustee, Funding
Tagged budget, censorship, classroom conditions, democracy, Howard Zinn, trustees
Leave a comment
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 Budget Campaign, Diary of a Mad Trustee, Funding, Provincial Government
Tagged BCTF, Bill 33, budget, classroom conditions, trustees
Leave a comment
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.
Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting February 16th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY -T.H. White – The Once and Future King I love a good meeting theme – many future opportunities for musical theatre or a … Continue reading
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 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