Harris McCarter, parent of a kindergartner, says he wants a "name that symbolizes the two schools coming together."
He says he blames "a movement within the school committee to renege on their promise."
In With the New
When she was hired this summer, Harris' first challenge was getting the building ready for nearly 300 students and more than 80 staff members.
Last spring, the school department angered many Fletcher and Maynard parents by locating the new school in the Maynard building and proposing repairs, rather than building an altogether new school.
Over the summer, the entire school was repainted in bright yellows and oranges. Windows and floors were fixed. And empty classrooms that had been used for storage were cleaned out.
"We had a lot of junk in this building," she says. "We filled up lots of dumpsters with old broken-down furniture."
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