Community Alliance For Public Education

                                                                                              
                                                                                     
                                                                                            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 [...]

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 willingness on the part of trustees to diminish community voice in order to save approximately [...]

  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. – Frank Herbert
Sometimes board meetings are about what [...]

 Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End

I guess it is a brilliant if well worn tactic – distract people from their misery by piling yet another misery on their shoulders they must address. This is the genius of the ministry withdrawal of the Annual Facilities Grant from all the school districts in BC to the [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
 
 
This meeting was quite the eclectic mix of the good, the bad and the ugly so this is a bit of a long commentary.
The feature presentation was the tendering of the district achievement contract – due to arrive at the ministry by July 15th and in my view [...]