The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Jan. 24, 2010

Wallingford: very interesting discussion of the K-2, 3-6, etc. alignment for public schools. It would seem not to cause a problem where there is no concept of neighborhood school . . . as in

Durham/Middlefield. If you have a school district with no need to divide into areas for different schools for the same grade level, the alignment would seem easy. The transportation cost isn’t all that significant, either. Where the system is larger, and the neighborhood school is firmly fixed in parents’ minds, there’s a challenge.

State: it probably doesn’t matter whether in-migration or out-migration is a good thing, but the state must deal with the possibility of losing representation in Washington. Either that matters, or it doesn’t.

Meriden: sounds as if the trend among councilors is toward the hybrid option to upgrade the two high schools. We suspect we can live with that if it turns out to be the choice.