Coffee
or latte?
What is spin? Spin is the whipped up froth over that cup of flavored coffee we call latte. It is what the coffee shops have done to get us to spend $4.50 for a 50-cent cup of coffee.
It is what the Nevis School District has been doing for 15 years. Nevis has spun the froth of a better school, one that every child should want to go to. Every caring parent should feel the obligation to send their children there, because that is where they'll get the best education.
Open enrollment is the coffee machine that made it possible. The Park Rapids School administration and school board are the people who didn't see it happening and are still serving coffee.
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Does Nevis really have better teachers? Better facilities? Better classes? More activities? In general, can they serve up a better education?
Look at the statistics and you will see, NO, NO, NO and NO! Then what do they have? They have spin. They are serving up lattes to every parent and student in the region.
Park Rapids School administration is still serving coffee and losing more customers (students) every year. If Park Rapids wants to compete in this new environment of open enrollment, it needs to learn how to make a good latte. If Park Rapids wants to pass a levy referendum to save the school from further degradation. it needs to convince the district tax payers it is worthy of the money. Convince them that it can take back some of the close to $1 million per year lost to open enrollment. Nevis School District gains most of this money by their willingness to compete.
Park Rapids is as much at fault as Nevis for creating this funding, bonding, taxation nightmare that the taxpayers of this county are once more being asked to clean up.
Neil King
Nevis
