Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., May 31, 2011

The decline in Social Studies – that’s always been a dreadful lumpish term – noted in Wallingford schools. The Superintendent is up front: “It’s not an area of interest,” it isn’t a part of the district’s strategic plan, and that the district is focusing on CMT and CAPT scores and other areas of need.

Congratulations to the winners of the Walter Deptula Public Speaking and Essay Contest held earlier this month at Washington Middle School in Meriden. Good thoughts, good words, good sounds.

It is good that survivors of other Connecticut murder victims have been heard from on the subject of capital punishment. One compliant for many years is that murders in and among inner city non-affluent folk get little attention, a complaint which appears to be consistent with the attention we are willing to give affluent murder victims’ loved ones.

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