No decision on co-op increase
By Suzanne Werre
Editor
After less than an hour of looking over and discussing the recent co-op survey results the Turtle Lake-Mercer School Board conducted, the board took no official action toward approving additional co-ops with Underwood and McClusky schools.
While the initial response to the survey results indicated 63 percent of the community was against adding boys basketball, girls basketball and volleyball to the existing Central McLean co-op, and 60 percent of the parents/students also against adding to the co-op, at the urging of some locals attending the meeting, the TL-M board opted to look at some more numbers before making a definitive decision.
“We wanted some research to help with our decision, I guess, and to me, right now at this moment our community is not ready to move forward with this,” said board president Brent Christensen. “We asked the questions, and the results we got . . . our community is not ready to move forward with this.”
The survey, which was open for two weeks and was obtainable either online or on paper from the school office, saw 16 of the 111 3rd through 10th-grade students take the survey, while 62 parents responded. Seventy community residents responded.
“It’s discouraging we didn’t get more responses,” added board member Josh Ruffo.
