Unitrin Inc., owner since 2009 of Response Insurance which has an office in former International building at 500 S. Broad St., Meriden, has decided to close the local operations. It’s too bad it isn’t a little more difficult to buy and sell businesses and put local communities into difficulties, but probably the business community would say once again that the state was being “unfriendly” to business.
The premise that teams of teachers need time to meet and discuss how their students are performing and learning, as teams in Meriden have just begun doing, is admirable. That the meetings seem driven by various standardized tests and rules requiring accountability on the basis of such tests which do individual students no good whatever, is not good at all, but unfortunately is necessary in today’s educational climate.
The down side of the North Center School plan in Southington is that although the sale, renovation and lease of the old former school are financed, the obviously necessary renovations to the town hall are not. But the voters have spoken, repeatedly, and financing is not going to happen any time soon.
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