![]() ![]() The destruction of the Atwell Building in December 1971 forced the high school into double sessions with juniors and seniors attending classes from 7 AM until noon and younger students in class from noon until 5 PM. That championship game, an overtime thriller over arch-rival Lexington at the old Boston Garden, took place 40 years ago, on March 6, 1973. The 1972-73 Warriors’ boy’s basketball team earned the nickname “Cardiac Kids” as they captured the Division 1 North State Championship – the school’s first ever – and gave the town, still shell-shocked from the destructive fires, a reason to cheer. Rising from the ashes and the inconvenience of their partially destroyed campus, in late 1972 a group of determined and largely unknown varsity basketball players lit a fire of their own, this one under not only their fellow students but the entire town. On Decema gut-punching fire destroyed the landmark three-story Atwell Building on Main Street which, since 1923, had served the community as both a junior high school and, at the time of the fire, was the older half of the Wakefield High School campus.Īn arsonist, who turned out be a Wakefield police officer, was later arrested but the damage caused by the fires had both scarred and scared the town. Homes, restaurants, Wakefield’s only movie theater and a huge industrial park, once the home of the rattan business of Cyrus Wakefield – the town’s namesake – were destroyed in often spectacular blazes. The woman said she’s missed the story when it ran in the Item in March of 2013.īy the fall of 1972 Wakefield was a town tired of being on fire.īeginning in March 1971 a series of more than a dozen suspicious fires had the town on edge. Rossi was the sports editor of the Item in 1973 and I was the high school senior - and team manager - who covered the team for that newspaper. Beasley, Smart Brevity, Taxman, Unitarian Universalist, Voke, voters, Wakefield Bowladrome, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield High School, Wakefield Human Rights Commission, Wakefield Police Department, Wakefield Public Schools, Wakefield Town Council, Warrior logo, Winter Solstice, WMHSĪnthony A.Someone contacted me a while back and said she’d heard I’d written a piece about the 1973 State Champion Wakefield High School basketball team.Īlmost three years ago I contacted editor Peter Rossi at the Wakefield Daily Item with an idea about writing the story to mark the 40th anniversary of the win. Douglas Lyons, Fence Viewers, Humor, Jason Lewis, Jeff Kehoe, Jonathan Chines, MAGA, Mark Sardella, Mehreen Butt, News, Northeast Metro Tech, Ohio State University, Politics, Sam Stella, Santa Claus, Shaun F. Tags: Amy McLeod, Beatles, Christmas, copyright, Donald Trump, Dr. I’ve taken to heart recent advice from readers that I should “do a little investigative journalism.” And since it’s my firm conviction that the public has a constitutional right to know what their local officials and others will be receiving in their stockings and under their trees on Christmas morning, my digging has uncovered Santa’s įiled under: Columns & Essays, Humor, Nature & Wildlife, News, Opinion, Politics, Wakefield Gholnescar Muhammad, education, Ella Baker, equity, feminism, historically responsive teaching, History, indoctrination, Jamilah Pitts, Little Red Book, manifesto, Mark Sardella, Marxism, math, Opinion, opinioncurriculum, oppression, Politics, power, privilege, professional development, racism, Roxanne Dungar-Ortiz, schools, science, Social Studies, socialism, students, teachers, teaching, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Public Schools, writing ![]() Love, classroom, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, criticality, CRT, Cultivating Genius, culturally responsive teaching, Dr. ![]() ![]() Tags: agitation literacies, Angela Davis, Betina L. Serious question: Are all educational gurus Marxists? Or is it just random luck that we keep finding them to guide curriculum development and teaching practice in Wakefield Public Schools? We’ll get to the latest example in a moment, but first a quick review.įiled under: Columns & Essays, Feature stories, History, News, Opinion, Politics, Wakefield ![]()
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