From Harford County Public Schools:
Harford County Public Schools will host the official Dedication Ceremony for Youth’s Benefit Elementary School on Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the school. Community members are invited to attend. Additional parking, with shuttle service, will be available at the Veronica Chenowith Activity Center at 1707 Fallston Road.
The event will include representatives from the Board of Education of Harford County, school system leadership, elected officials, and students and staff of Youth’s Benefit Elementary School. Light refreshments and self-guided tours will follow the formal ceremony.
The new Youth’s Benefit Elementary School is 149,000 square feet and is the largest single-building elementary school in Harford County. It is equipped with state of the art technology, including two computer labs and a TV studio. The building’s design features a courtyard in the center of the school to allow for all classrooms to have windows and natural sunlight. There are multiple vocal music and art classrooms, as well as one instrumental music room. The school is home to a beautiful media center, as well as an amazing gymnasium. Additionally, there are three playgrounds and a blacktop basketball court.
$50 million later we have a replacement school. What a deal.
Why does an elementary school need a TV studio?
To teach kids about TV! Everybody cant word at HBO!
Because someone had a friend who could supply equipment for it. Building schools is not about educating children
This elementary school should be in place in all towns across Harford County. It is hard to grasp the nicety of this school where there are children who live in Aberdeen and Edgewood to name a couple, whose schools have a hard time providing a budget that is for teachers and custodial workers to teach and provide to provide all the Harford County Elementary School employees with up to date materials. No one likes to work with broken tools. Someone in the school system needs to inspect and see hands on what is going on inside these schools to insure no child and worker is left behind just because of their zip code. How about checking on schools where there is no Security plan in place? No budget for a Security Guard? God forbid something were to go bad. Then what? Find the money to supply upon the tragedy? Enjoy your school Fallston children, teachers, parents and Custodians. I’m sure it will be amazing to be under the roof for the day and year. How about getting the Board of Education in surrounding schools and ensure all children, teachers and school employees are well taken care of to provide the best in their school experiences. Just because of a persons zip code they should not be abandoned and taken advantage of.
These people pay way more in property taxes. It is perfectly reasonable they should expect a quality school, which is funded through said tax dollars.
Pay way more? Lol. since when does your local .gov “owe it us” who pay more because they were inclined to purchase that big, overpriced shitty built house with the cheapest bid on labor and materials?
Turn your nose up when you drive up and down Route 40. Don’t forget to keep saying “I’m better” over and over if it makes you feel better.
Better at what? Increasing the heroin overdose number on billboards? LOL
There IS a new school being built on the Rt. 40 corridor, and, of course, not everyone approves.
Touched a nerve, I see!
Just about anything on here regarding schools or tax money touches somebody’s nerve. On one hand, people say our schools are out of date and falling down. On the other, people are outraged that we are building new ones.
It seems just about everybody has a “better” idea about how to spend tax money than the people who are actually tasked with spending it.
@Minion, very true. I would very interested in seeing these people run for the school board or other political office and express these views in public.
Try paying more taxes like the parents of fallston kids do.
That is an arrogant statement.
That is an arrogant statement.
Why do they pay so much? To cover the cost of EMS and Police personnel responding to all the dope fiends overdoses?
Having a bad day and need to feel better about your sorry assed self?
Hey man, I applaud you having that doctor status but I’m glad I’m not you. Private practices are in financial peril because of the dysfunctional health care system, insurance companies that are terrible to deal with, more patients going to a “doc in a box” urgent care facilities, good help/employees are getting tougher and tougher to find and keep, and finally, whatever patients you have left leave 1 star Google reviews.
Enjoy them taxes until you default on those big loans.
Housing in higher density areas of the county yields more taxes. While individual homeowners may pay more in areas like Fallston, communities with more taxpayers per square mile will not only yield more tax dollars but willl do so more efficiently. Areas like Joppatowne with both waterfront and density contribute far more to our overall wealth. Bel Air , Abingdon, Churchville and just about any community in the development envelope will outpace tax contributions of Fallston by a considerable lead for decades to come.
Oh how Harford is changing..
The old Youth Benefit as decrepit and it was time to replace. I agree this school is over the top. I drive by it every day and think that.
Did you say “youts”?
Oh my….those children are going to be in for a shock when they get up to the 1970s era high-school.