I was talking to Elaine Davis, the chair of the county's ethics committee, this morning, just checking to see if the board's got anything going on for Wednesday's meeting.
They don't.
Anyhoo, she said she was visiting some folks in Alabama over the holidays and was reading a local paper that talked about state problems about teachers accepting gifts. Apparently, the governor over there in that godforsaken state (yeah – I said it and I don't really care what you think about me saying it) had to come up with a plan, so that teachers could accept gifts and it wouldn't be an ethics violation.
Not sure what article Davis saw, but a Google search popped up this one from the Montgomery Advertiser – click right smack here for it.
Yeah, Alabama. Yee-freakin'-haw. I like your football team. I hope you crush LSU tonight in the Big Game. But your state makes no sense.
By the way, Elaine says she doesn't think it's an ethics violation in Tennessee for teachers to accept gifts, particularly in Knox County.
Because, you know, we don't pay them anything, anyway.
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I hope it isn't. I've been giving 'em printers. About to deliver another printer to a teacher tomorrow, actually.
i'm pretty sure common sense won a victory here.
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