Fired up over teacher tenure and new EH police chief

(WTNH) - Folks are sounding off about Governor Malloy's state of the state address yesterday. They are fired up over the education reforms surrounding teacher tenure.

There are also those folks who aren't to happy about Brent Larrabee being tapped to take over as East Haven's new acting police chief.

"Former Police Chief Larrabee has more cases of police federal corruption than Police Chief Gallo," said Claude of Stratford. "It is evident at this point that this mayor is not making any reasonable strides to improve these concerns by taking one corrupt police chief and putting in another who is actually worse than the one who had to resign."

"I've been a teacher for over three decades, and the only thing that teachers have to protect themselves is the teacher tenure. Very often teachers and principals have personality disputes, have conflicts, and if it wasn't for tenure, many teachers would be unfairly let go," said Mary Beth of Stratford. "One of the most important things that we can do is more parent involvement, put the accountability on the parents, enough teacher bashing."

Jason of Coventry: "If Governor Malloy invested the money that he was going to invest in Jackson Lab which is $290 million for 90 scientists, and invested that into education to hire teachers, he could hire 5800 teachers instead of 90 scientists."

Lyle of Southington: "That tax deal that's going on down there, people aren't getting their money back. Where's Richard Blumenthal? He would be on top of this like flies on candy. Who is anyway? I don't even know the guy's name is that 's Attorney General?"

Dave of Bozrah: "I just saw your newscast about the Animal Control girl trying to catch the goose with a net. I've seen bigger nets that people use for butterflies. If she ever hit that arrow she's going to kill the goose. Ridiculous way to try and catch a goose."

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