Crowds explore new grade school at Hubbard open house

HUBBARD

Angelea and Savanna Rudes were celebrating a new era at an open house Saturday for their new elementary school.

Gone are the hair-grabbing old chairs of Roosevelt Elementary School, and here to take their place are the smooth, plastic-backed chairs of Hubbard Elementary.

Savanna, 6, who will be going into second grade, and her sister Angelea, 8, an up-and-coming fourth-grader, don’t have to worry about their long, black hair getting tangled on the rivets of the old-fashioned chairs at the old school. It will be torn down.

Those same chairs were there when the girls’ mother, Genene, went to Roosevelt Elementary.

“I agree with my daughter,” said Genene — she and Angelea think the new school looks more like a high school. She confessed, though, that she misses the old slate chalkboards — the new school’s 36 classrooms are equipped with SMART boards that use interactive computer technology instead.

Their father, George, likes the synthetic gym floor.

The classrooms are all on the second floor of the 90,000-square-foot, $14.6 million school.

The family was among a large crowd that turned out to see the new school on the district’s Hall Avenue campus.

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