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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am PP with the infamous axe statement. My point, clearly ill-made, is that no one has first person specifics; there are no police records; and the school statement is unclear. I, for one, have no idea what really happened, and it is ridiculous to keep speculating. If there was inappropriate behavior, the perpetrator is gone. Good. Whether the school handled well, most of us were not there so… who knows! 
And while I am extremely careful for my daughter, I have seen the other side of the coin, as I had a family member falsely accused of inappropriate behavior by a disgruntled employee who was on a performance plan. Not that an adult is the same as a child ever, but you hopefully see the point. Ok, feel free to bash, as some of you always do. [/quote]

Inveniam viam aut faciam.[/quote]

Community service announcement for those non fluent in cool Latin tattoo phrases …

Inveniam viam aut

It means “Either I will discover the road, or I will make it”.

The verb inveniam is the first person singular future active indicative form of invenīre, meaning “to discover”. Therefore it is translated as “I will discover”.

Viam is the accusative singular form of via, meaning “road, path”. It takes the accusative because it is the object of the sentence.

Faciam is the first person singular future active indicative form of facere, meaning “to make, to do”. It is thus translated as “I will make”.

Finally the conjunction aut means “or”, and is used in pairs to indicate “either…or…”

Herefore, the sentence aut inveniam viam aut faciam means “I will either discover the path, or I will make it”.

If you wanted to say “We will either discover the path, or we will make it”, you would say aut inveniēmus viam aut faciēmus.[/quote]

I assume they were trying to write the Holton motto, which is "Find a way or make your own"[/quote]

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