The English High School in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood remains partially under construction as it undergoes window replacements across the building. It means, when students come back to school on Thursday they were met with boarded up windows on large parts of the building.

"A post-apocalyptic feeling, a little bit as well, I would say," joked Peter Fitzgerald, who has nephews in the school district. "I think things will expedite now that kids are going back to school. I wouldn't be thrilled to see them going back to school, first day, first week, with no light, no windows and things like that."

The more than $11 million window replacement project is part of the Massachusetts School Building Authority's accelerated repair program. To be eligible, the windows have to be more than

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