![After Massachusetts voted to remove the MCAS graduation requirement, policy makers are reshaping graduation standards. "The top-line understanding is that we’ve moved away from a system that we’ve known for about 24 years, which is one where every school district in Massachusetts had wide latitude to decide what their graduation requirements were in terms of coursework or other experiences, but every single student, in order to earn a diploma, needed to pass the MCAS in one English, one math and one science assessment," Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler said. "We’ve moved away from that now, by virtue of the outcome of [the MCAS] ballot question in November, to a place where communities can still decide what their graduation requirements are, but there’s no requirement for students to pass the MCAS.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_3067_720.png)
![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.jpeg)
i have been wondering for years what the secret identity of vilma is. by reading the answers I have a sneaking suspicion that it is a guy. Clarify please
You are not the only one who has been wondering this for years. Some people say I am who I say I am, Viktoria Vilma. Others say I’m a drifter, living where my feet take me and giving advice until I have to move on. I have heard a few people suggest that I am in fact a criminal on the run from the law and forced to change my name (and even its gender). All of these theories may be true, but in the end I am just a person trying to make Wayland High School a better place for all of us.
11th grader • Sep 18, 2024 at 6:58 PM
16 years later and Vilma is still iconic as ever