Friday is letters-to-the-editor day—read what Wellesley Middle School students have to say

Each year Wellesley Middle School Social Studies students take part in a Civics Action Project. In partnership with The Swellesley Report, some of the students choose to write an editorial about a wide range of topics reflecting their individual interests. They are then responsible for emailing their editorials to us.

Thanks to WMS Social Studies head Adam Blumer, and to the entire social studies department, for spearheading this important civics project.

We’ll publish several letters per week.

In this week’s letters from the middle schoolers:

• Thanks to crack-of-dawn WMS start times, “I fell asleep mid-quiz!”
• The distasteful truth—here’s why “students do not trust the water fountains”
• School success—how magic markers live up to their name

In a letter from the wider community:

• Counterpoint to a previous letter—”public school enrollment has been declining for years“

You can see all the letters here.

How many Fridays are we going to encourage this display of civic involvement? For as many as it takes for the WMS Social Studies students to air their opinions.