Investor To Donate $1.6M For New Field At Suffield High

What a wonderful way to give back!

Nice story in a time where there are few!

Ted W. Beneski is very generous with his alma mater and that was very nice of him to make such a gift, however wouldn't $1.6 million in library books have been a better investment in the lives of the students and the community? Just a thought.

Mac wrote:

Ted W. Beneski is very generous with his alma mater and that was very nice of him to make such a gift, however wouldn't $1.6 million in library books have been a better investment in the lives of the students and the community? Just a thought.

If someone is generous enough to donate 1.6 mil, I wouldn't quibble on where the money goes. Having a top notch athletic field shows that the town cares about its student athletes. Unlike South Windsor with it laughable High school fields.
The annual maintenance will be lower than grass fields.

Eddie C wrote:

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If someone is generous enough to donate 1.6 mil, I wouldn't quibble on where the money goes. Having a top notch athletic field shows that the town cares about its student athletes. Unlike South Windsor with it laughable High school fields.
The annual maintenance will be lower than grass fields.

That's not the only thing laughable about South Windsor-check out what's happening with their Board of Education-downward spiral in SW.

Eddie C wrote:

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If someone is generous enough to donate 1.6 mil, I wouldn't quibble on where the money goes. Having a top notch athletic field shows that the town cares about its student athletes. Unlike South Windsor with it laughable High school fields.
The annual maintenance will be lower than grass fields.

Schools are for education not sporting activities for the few. That's why one should quibble. Remember they are STUDENTS first athletes a distant second or third. We are preparing them to compete in life not games.

Mac wrote:

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Schools are for education not sporting activities for the few. That's why one should quibble. Remember they are STUDENTS first athletes a distant second or third. We are preparing them to compete in life not games.

Your argument would be true if it was public money.
This is a private donation. Your socailist view that every school expediture must benefit everyone is naive. All schools have clubs,sports teams, AP classes etc. that cater to a few.

conflictedcatholic wrote:

<quoted text>Your argument would be true if it was public money.
This is a private donation. Your socailist view that every school expediture must benefit everyone is naive. All schools have clubs,sports teams, AP classes etc. that cater to a few.

Then he should build it on private land.

Mac wrote:

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Then he should build it on private land.

Get over it comrade

Any progressive thinker would know that funding for books should be in the past. Nowadays, students use the internet for research, not the dewy decimal system! Yes, we are preparing them for life, that is exactly why the money is properly tunneled to team sports - so we can deal with others and learn how to overcome some of life's problems (on the field).

Linda F wrote:

Any progressive thinker would know that funding for books should be in the past. Nowadays, students use the internet for research, not the dewy decimal system! Yes, we are preparing them for life, that is exactly why the money is properly tunneled to team sports - so we can deal with others and learn how to overcome some of life's problems (on the field).

What a Polyanna!

That term that you used confirmed your age. It was apparent that you are an older person, perhaps naive as to the realities of this century.