A few minutes after the first bell rings to start classes at 7:55 a.m., Phyllis Newton and MaryAnn Savilonis--the new school's parent liaisons--are sitting at their desks in the Parent Room.
"Now that people are here it's fine," says Savilonis, as she punches out paper letters for the Parent Room bulletin board she is putting up.
She was the parent liaison at the Fletcher last year.
"They had heard that [Maynard] looks like a dungeon," she says of Fletcher parents. "Those were the rumors."
Newton has been a liaison for 17 years, mostly at the Maynard. She marvels at the difference in morale between last spring and this fall.
"It's like a dream," she says. "It's like you died and went to heaven."
This morning the liaisons are joined by several parents, including Grace Travaglia.
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