Hampshire ready to raise curtain on $77 million high school

Rising from cornfields, the gleaming new Hampshire High School features five art labs, a 2,500-seat gymnasium and eco-friendly features such as lights that turn on when someone enters a room.

[stumpywest]

Absolutely outrages. How can the voters of Illinois be so completely stupid to authorize a $77mm high school? Thats a mere $86 thousand dollars per student at current enrollment. Voters should realize there is a difference between what a high school should be and the trade school they built.

[Tic]

Lockport township wants $130 Million
for a new HS that has been voted down three time already and set for another attempt at extortion in November

Given the present state on the economy
no way should that be approved by the voters

[cinggreen]

stumpywest wrote:

Absolutely outrages. How can the voters of Illinois be so completely stupid to authorize a $77mm high school? Thats a mere $86 thousand dollars per student at current enrollment. Voters should realize there is a difference between what a high school should be and the trade school they built.

Had you had better schooling, you may actually be able to spell outrageous correctly. Unless you have lived in Hampshire for the last ten years, you wouldnt understand the circumstances behind building a new school. With enrollment out of control, and students being housed in mobiles, it truly was becoming a safety hazard. We look at it as an investment into our childrens future, as well as the future of those who are yet to come. Enrollment will most likely be at max within the next few years. Yes, a large expense, but we have done without for much too long.

[Farkuss]

stumpywest wrote:

Absolutely outrages. How can the voters of Illinois be so completely stupid to authorize a $77mm high school? Thats a mere $86 thousand dollars per student at current enrollment. Voters should realize there is a difference between what a high school should be and the trade school they built.

What a silly question! Have you looked at the elected state office holders in Illinois? Nothing more need be said.

[Farkuss]

But seriously, I do believe that Hampshire is one of the fastest growing school districts in Illinois. Even if the school is not at capacity for another ten years, in the long run it is cheaper to build it now.

[Christie]

I will be entering my senior year at hampshire this year.. and its amazing. We needed this new school more than anyone except those who go to hampshire would know. We worked so hard to get it passed, because if we didn't everything would have been cut to except for core classes. So we are extremely gratful for all those who saw the new school the same way we did. =]

[JUDY]

YOU THINK WE HAD ANY SAY ID THIS 77 MIL. SCHOOL THINK AGAIN ,YOUR DEALING WITH GOVERNMENT,THEY DO AS THEY SEE FIT

[Margaret]

This school was needed. The old school has been renovated and will be used only for a middle school, prior to this it was a middle/high school. Hampshire has seen its fair share of growth within the community and the class rooms could no longer support 40 kids per a class. The new school was designed to accommodate the growth we were seeing in the community.

With that being said,$77 million was overkill. The kids could care less about what is spent on the school, they aren't going to like school any better.

In the end, the boundaries within the district have been redrawn and the new school is at capacity. That means when the projected growth from currently approved developments is achieved, the school will not be able to handle it.

So, the school is benefiting the entire district, not just Hampshire.