Community Alliance For Public Education

                                                          Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice    
                                                   Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
                                          
 I don’t usually make the classic error of speaking to the unmovable people at the top of the heap. I have found it is a waste of time, vigour and thought. However, as the Minister of Education has chosen to interpret the posting of compliance [...]

 
                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
                                                                                    - Henry David Thoreau 
In the last two weeks on three separate evenings, we have had 1st reading of the cutback budget [...]

                                                                                              
                                                                                     
                                                                                            Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
                                                                                     Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
Once upon a time there was a middle school with almost 6oo kids within its walls. As you might expect there were many heartening events there but despite the best efforts of the teachers, parents and support workers they did not have nearly enough teaching and education assistant [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice

 
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
Tonight’s report is odd …more odd than usual. It is about what did not happen at our regular board meeting. We were expecting a draft of a rather rudimentary strategic plan which we have been tangling over for months. I should tell you this has been a most unconstructive [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 It comes in many forms – the tactics for ‘shock and awe’ used to convince us ‘drastic action’ and ‘major restructuring’ are in order. Sometimes it is bombastic and hysterical like the harangue we were all subjected to back in 2006 by Dr Rubadeau; sometimes it is quiet and [...]