New special education school named
JAMESTOWN (MCT) — A new special education school at Jamestown will bear two names.
The Guilford County Board of Education voted Tuesday to name the $18 million school to be built on the Jamestown Middle School campus after the late Meredith Leigh Haynes, a High Point native, and Bennie Lee Inman, a special-education pioneer.
The vote was 5-4 on a compromise motion.
The school tentatively will be named Haynes-Inman School. The school had been known as Gateway West.
The Haynes name was one of four suggested for the new school. The school will be built on 14 acres at Harvey Road, formerly owned by Meredith's grandfather T.G. Haynes. Voter-approved school construction bonds are paying for the project,
Meredith Haynes developed tuberous sclerosis and exhibited signs of both physical and mental disabilities when she was 18 months old. In 1974, Haynes moved with her parents to Jamestown into a home near the new school site. She died in 1993 at age 20. She attended several schools, including Gateway Education Center in Greensboro.
Inman was the longtime director of the Greensboro Cerebral Palsy School that later became Gateway.
"She is the reason we have a Gateway," Chairman Alan Duncan said, "but I think both should be recognized."
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