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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 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 January 19th 2011 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Sometimes I expect to see the camera crew from Punk’d as we wend our way through these meetings. This does not of course mean I spend any more time on … 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
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 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 May 5th and May 12th 2010 Open Board Meetings/1st and 2nd Reading of the Budget
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. - … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee April 7th 2010 Open Meeting
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 … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Meeting October 7th 2009
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End When I wanted to add an item for discussion to the board agenda I realised for trustees there is no place to go. We must wander aimlessly through … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee-September 16th 2009 Open Board Meeting
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 … Continue reading