IN A WORD.......................YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

That high school is the scariest high school I've ever seen and I thought that ever since I moved here. I would never want to go to school next to a huge factory, lol.

"Havre de Grace is the only community in Harford County that hasn't had a new high school since 1967" sums up the city pretty good. Bwaha

Katie, the high school in Havre de Grace, although housed next to Huber, holds many, special memories for the long-time HdG residents that walked the halls there. We were perfectly happy attending that school when times were not so complicated. The question of whether a new school is warranted in HdG or not would depend on the capacity of the present school with respect to the number of new residents that have come to make HdG their home. As a graduate of HHS, Class of 1970, the school was ample for the population that it served...although there was a time when they had portable trailers for the school years of 1964-1966, if my memory serves me right. Although I would greatly miss seeing the building of my Alma Mater, I certainly would be in favor of a new high school to accommodate the city's needs and from the traffic and increased housing that has built in the last 10 years, I'd say, that it's most likely time to give this issue serious consideration.

Once again, Katie shows her insensitivity towards our great town. Of course we need a "new" or much improved High School but I sure hope it doesn't have to move from the current location.

I am a 2002 graduate of Havre de Grace. It needed to be replaced then, so one can only imagine what has happened in the 10 years since. The roof leaks something fierce, the third floor never had any AC (don't know if that has changed), the bathrooms were always being closed off for one reason or the other, and the classrooms never seemed to be big enough. Now, 10 years ago, we didn't yet have the influx of new residents brought on by the development of Bulle Rock or Greenway Farms (or BRAC for that matter); these have surely only added to the overcrowding that was already present when I attended. This is an issue that can no longer be ignored. Every other high school in this county has had some sort of recent upgrade, if not an altogether new building. It is our turn. We may be the smallest school in this county, but it does not mean that we should be pushed aside and treated like we don't matter. The money that would have allowed the building of a new school was originally in the budget....why was it removed? What was so much more important to the powers that be that prompted the withdrawal? The students of Havre de Grace deserve better than this. Write to your representatives people!

Danie

Yes! It is way too small for the amount of kids in t we have to fight our way through the hallways because they are too small. We also have different tempertures in differnt parts of the school some parts are freezing some are boiling hot! We also don't have enough/big enough classrooms I mean we have traveling teachers they have to share with other teachers It's terrible but I do love the memories I've had there thus far and I don't mind where it is at all

I hold many fond memories of HHS. And I love this little town. Me being a member of the class of 76. Also being the first class to graduate from the new auditorium, which was state of the art at that time. We do need a new school but I hate seeing it go to the outskirts of town. We need to have better programs so everyone else will quit looking down their noses at us. We got a new football field only because the people came together and made it so. Havre de Grace has always been the "we will get around to it" area. It's time for a new one. 60 million seems a little much but if that is what it takes to give the kids a better education, make the existing teachers feel better and to bring in more programs, so be it. We pay taxes for things like this and there are grants out there and other financial assistant programs.
Now on another note.
We keep getting "newbies" in this town that want to tear us down. Just stop it. If you don't like the town don't live here are my feelings. Truth be told many kids want to get out of here as soon as they graduate but always come back. It's a town you want your kids to grow up in.

When asked " What does it takes to educate a child?" Socrates responded "a place to sit and a willing mind". Unfortunately, very few students today know who he was.

Just another thought or two on this...and Katie, I'm not picking on you, but it did just occur to me that I'd venture to say that HHS was here long before Huber built their plant next door (and according to my husband, a life-long resident of HdG, the Huber site used to a brewery)...one doesn't just up and leave when a neighbor moves next door, especially, when it involves the taxpayer's dollars. Back to the question of whether to build a new HHS or not...since I attended Meadowvale Elementary which served the residents that lived "outside the HDG city limits" and took the burden away from HdG Elementary from overcrowding, wouldn't it be worth consideration to build another high school for the residents that live on the outskirts and beyond the city limits, since there are 2 elementary schools? That would make alot of sense.

I can't believe people want to keep a building that resembles some modern detention centers.

I am a proud parent of 2 graduates one in2008 and one this year and yes there is a need for MUCH improvement ...but to compare it to a detention center is a bit of stretch...I am also an employee and if i can say this...With all the money the BOE is saving by holding back raises and steps and COLA's..and the money being saved by County Exec Craig retracting the second installment of the "BONUS" money one would think...hmmmm.just sayin..had to get that off my chest

I have been at that school for craft shows and it really needs to be replaced. I agree that it should be replaced in the same area because of the sport fields. The building needs to look like a high school not some scary looking building.

I'm pleased that we have a tangible issue of replacing the outdated high school on the agenda rather than a bunch of whiners wanting more taxes!

Brent kind of took my thoughts, hahaha...

wasn't it redone around 83-84?

There are two separate issues here. One is the curriculum, the other is the physical plant. Both need improvement. A new school may take 5-10 years to open, but improved curriculum can be done much earlier than that. I think it is a mistake to think of these two concepts as one. As Mr. Karas, quoting Socrates correctly states, the building is incidental. That said, I know of no other school that is divided by at least two major roadways. Without doubt, it seems to me, it is time to start the plans for a new high school. But, before that school is finished, the level of education must improve by, among other things, introducing "advanced placement' courses and a higher level of learning. This means the County needs to put more emphasis on a high level of learning at all schools, not just some.