Community Alliance For Public Education

                                                                                                 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 endorsed the budget and all our fates are confirmed, you would think there would be a bit of [...]

 
                                                           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
 
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 the agenda looking for refuge and find there none.
If you are the secretary treasurer or the superintendent you have your name [...]

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 [...]