It was called the "new school"--at least for a while.
Last spring, the Fletcher and Maynard elementary schools, both located in Cambridge's Area 4, were closed and this fall a new, merged school was opened in the Maynard building with a hand-picked staff and a revamped curriculum.
The opening of the merged school went off smoothly, but a passionate debate ignited almost immediately thereafter. The question: What would the new school's name be?
Less than three weeks into the school year, Principal Robin A. Harris has cut off what she says could have become an "ugly" process.
According to Harris, the merged school will be called the "Fletcher-Maynard Academy."
She announced the decision at a staff meeting yesterday and will discuss the name publicly at a school open house tomorrow night.
"We have to pick the battles we're going to fight," Harris says.
As the naming debate has heated up, some teachers have gone without textbooks. Furniture for the science and computer labs has not arrived. And half of the library books are still packed in boxes.
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