Wayland High School to change logo

Credit: Joyce Wu Owen Smith, Freshman “I’m gonna be honest with you, this logo, I don’t know about it. I feel like this school is like, ‘oh no, Native Americans,’ but it’s just a spear. It’s a spear, you know? It’s just a spear, it doesn’t mean anything else, it’s just a spear. It’s all it means. Maybe that helmet’s alright, but that torch just looks like one of those cone...

Wayland High School has officially moved away from a Native American spear as its logo. Students recently voted on a symbol to replace the spear, but it is not clear if either design will become the permanent school logo. The spear had long been a source of controversy among faculty and school committee members in Wayland. According to WHS Principal Allyson Mizoguchi, discussions regarding the spear’s...

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