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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

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting November 17th 2010

                                                  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 … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee November 3rd 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 … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting October 20th 2010

    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 … Continue reading

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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

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Diary of a Mad Trustee September 15th 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 … Continue reading

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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

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Response to the letters posted by John Brackenbury and Morag M. Gilchrist in the Cowichan Newsleader, August 11 2010

  In their comments both letter writers argue our public schools are generously funded by the provincial government and the shortfalls our boards are experiencing have a host of other origins which are not being generated by the Ministry.  Yes, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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