Category Archives: School Closure

Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting October 19th 2011

Posted on October 31, 2011 by eden

 Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End   Six years is a long time to spend in the board room but I have been a willing participant and I have no one to blame but myself. It has not always … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting March 2nd 2011

Posted on March 14, 2011 by eden

    Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End   The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting – Milan Kundera   There must have been a time in the human chronicle we could … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting December 1st 2010

Posted on December 14, 2010 by eden

                                                                                           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 June 16th 2010 Open Board Meeting

Posted on June 29, 2010 by eden

  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 May 5th and May 12th 2010 Open Board Meetings/1st and 2nd Reading of the Budget

Posted on May 17, 2010 by eden

                                                             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 →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee April 21st 2010 Open Board Meeting

Posted on May 2, 2010 by eden

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Tonight something rather quiet but significant happened. Very few people in the room would be aware and why would they? Sometimes you pass a policy or a revised policy and it all … Continue reading →

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Report from the May 25th 2009 CAPE meeting

Posted on May 26, 2009 by eden

We had our monthly CAPE meeting at my place last night(May 25 2009) starting at 5 pm -well a few minutes after- we had to chat and fuss over the cats. We had 7 people there and those present gave … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: Open Board Meeting of May 6th 2009

Posted on May 17, 2009 by admin

  Principiis obsta…Finem respice Resist the beginning… Consider the end         This report is about the wonderful world of math. The comforting structured certainty of numbers and the capriciousness with which they are confounded and overturned. I … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: Open Board Meeting of April 15th 2009

Posted on April 15, 2009 by admin

Principiis obsta…Finem respice Resist the beginning… Consider the end Let’s see – it was quite the eclectic buffet- this meeting. Just before the open regular meeting we had a presentation of the architect’s conclusions about the ABG site out at … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: Open Board Meeting – November 5th, 2008

Posted on November 5, 2008 by admin

Principiis obsta…Finem respice Resist the beginning… Consider the end This meeting got off to a sorry start when we were informed that though the PAC from Koksilah School had asked for delegation status in good time, the board chair( hand … Continue reading →

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