For the past couple years, standards based grading has been the primary way of evaluating students at Wayland Middle School, a system that measures students' abilities with numbers one through four. Students...
Attracting roughly 17.4 million viewers each week, football has taken its seat to be America’s most watched sport. Whether it’s football fans tuning in for the Sunday night prime-time games, football...
Dante's Discography: Certified Lover Boy
After what has felt like a drought of newer music from our favorite artists, we finally got the music we’ve been waiting for. Tyler, the Creator, J.Cole and...
Current seniors have a lot riding on their college applications that they are writing. After all, a student’s acceptance letters will leave them with their options for the next four years of their life....
It’s October, which means sports are in full swing. The NFL regular season is heating up, the MLB playoffs are gaining momentum and the NHL season is getting started. However, what might be most exciting...
Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden was inaugurated into the presidential office. Donald Trump's reign was over, or so we thought. Throughout the past few months, the Republican Party has strayed farther and farther...
With the beginning of the NFL season in the books, many people think that they have an idea of how their team will fare over the rest of the season. Like Wall Street, teams’ stocks are rising, falling,...
When I was 11, I begged my parents to let me download Instagram. All my friends were using it, and I felt like the odd one out. Unfortunately for me, my mom insisted that I would have to wait. So I bided...
As fans geared up to watch the US Open live at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, NY, they waited eagerly to make their way into the center. Thirty minutes passed. Then an hour....
Gabrielle Petito was a 22-year-old woman from North Port, Florida, who went on a cross-country trip via a van with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. He returned to his home Sept. 1, without her, two months...
MCAS, affectionately referred to by students as the Massachusetts Child Abuse System, is a standardized testing system that we all know and love. Introduced in 1993, the exam assesses science, math and...
MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) has been used for years to test students' scholastic abilities. There has been much debate about the test but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic...
![Wayland Middle School science teacher Richard Battaglia is excited to run the 2021, Oct. 11, Boston Marathon since it has not been held in-person since 2019. Everybody [in the Boston Athletic Association Running Club] is psyched to run the marathon, Battaglia said. A lot of us really enjoy Boston and to miss it for 2020 and the spring was really hard.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-9.25.55-AM.png)
![The Class of 2022 celebrates their semi-formal, held at the Weston Golf Club. The Class of 2022 semi-formal was the last school dance hosted for Wayland students since the pandemic hit. The current junior class was not able to have a semi-formal last year and is in the process of planning its dance for this year despite a series of setbacks. “If we do have it at the high school, it’s not your ‘typical’ semi-formal,” Junior Class Vice President Samantha Tyska said. “I hope that our grade reacts to that and doesn’t get angry, [but are] more so appreciative of the idea that we’re able to hold an event for our class.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-29-at-9.40.55-AM-900x603.png)
![The Youth 4 Period Equity Organization will hold a rally outside the Massachusetts State House Thursday, Sept. 23 from 4-6 p.m. to raise awareness for the I Am bill. “[The ‘I AM Bill’] is an expansive measure that would ensure free menstrual care to public schools, shelters, prisons and jails across Massachusetts,” Youth 4 Period Equity Co-Founder Hannah Swichtenberg said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-3.20.01-PM-900x600.jpeg)
![Junior Ava Tang dresses in New Balance, Levis and thrifted clothing. Tangs favorite piece of clothing to dress in are sweaters. I think there [are] a lot of different patterns you can find or different bright colors with different fabrics and stuff,” Tang said](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_5803-L.jpg)
