Committee member Alice L. Turkel says she favors relying on current school committee policies, which call for an "organized process" and say the "wishes of parents and students should be considered."
"The school should decide what it would like to be called," she says. "I trust the principal to run a process."
The Name Game
Early this fall, there was a suggestion box in the new school's office for students, parents and teachers to suggest names for the school.
Harris planned to convene a committee to choose a name among those suggested in the box. But she says she called off that procedure when she saw the process getting out of hand.
Parents who have followed the merger process say they are angry that controversy over the name means they will not get to choose.
"Everything is lies, lies, lies," says Bernadette Montasse, who has a fourth-grade son at the new school. "[There was] supposed to be a new school with a new name."
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