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Great editorial! What happened here? The make-up of previous boards gave Dr. Charles Rick carte blanche to run the district, the board lost contact and continuity, the let the Cook News-Herald serve as their spin-meister public relations firm and then came the bond referendum in which the board, with the exception of Andy Larson, totally ignored the pleas of voters in their school attendance area. Now to complicate matters, they hired as Superintendent, a person who is in over her head. She came from a district where their school board began catching on to her inexperience, and then this district, which is substantially larger and spread out plucks her as Dr. Rick's replacement in hopes it would placate the Nett Lake residents who were threatening to send their children to Littlefork, thereby losing valuable tuition-in monies.

Chet Larson appears to be having an epiphany and is starting to turn over some rocks, and we have a conscience now with Nancy Glowaski on board asking the questions that need to be asked. Nothing is going to reopen the schools that were closed, so frankly, as far as I am concerned, I hope the district fails and dissolves. It has evolved into an unrecognizable and needless organization that would serve the taxpayers better if the kids were bussed to the stronger Range schools in the south and to the Falls and Littlefork in the north. As when Nixon resigned, then President Ford stated the national nightmare is over. It's come time that this nightmare come to an end.