They have no lessen plans

My dad worked for the VA as a member of the Senior Executive Service. The different Veteran Service Organizations would ask him and a politician or two to give a talk. They would gift my dad t-shirt or some pens, he couldn’t get a give worth more than a few dollars. The Senator who was there got $20,000 for a short talk. I like how they make rules for themselves and a different set of rules for the non-ruling class.

Most teachers are actually pretty good sports about Accountability. I’m not sure why people concerned with justice wouldn’t be. 🤔

It would only be right and make sense

I work in finance. If there’s a limit on gifts, no one knows about it.

I’ve gotten many free meals and expensive bottles of alcohol and just random free stuff

I live in a condo next to some school admin office. When it snows their maintenance guy clears our sidewalk. Mostly because the school has a riding snow blower and he can’t turn around in the middle of the sidewalk so he goes a few extra feet to turn around in our driveway and basically clears our small sidewalk

Once we tried to give him some $20 gift card to like McDonalds or Starbucks or something like that and he refused it because as a public servant he cannot accept gifts

Meanwhile the Supreme court takes houses , luxury vacations , private jets all as gifts

Another time my company does ERP software and were were holding like a customer event, some schools use our ERP software. Anyway we had some drawing that we just registerred everyone who came in, it was like a tablet or something

Low and behold we pick the public school employee and she refuses it because she cannot take gifts

Once a year? My wife is a teacher and has worked in 2 districts now. First district she worked in required 8 evaluations a year. 6 formal 2 informal. This new district is 6. 3 formal and 3 informal. And that considered low in IL. Thats not counting all the professional development hours she needs to do to keep her teaching license.

Why stop there? I feel like this should be law for every single person working for the state and federal government.

well, maybe if you went on a few vacations with the local rich guys….

Our politicians recently voted to change their gift limits from 250 to $500.

Unless approved by the premier’s chief of staff, which appears to not have a limit, so long as it’s reported (not investigated) by a (friendly) ethics commissioner.

Is the title a play on words or proof the extra work doesn’t mean shit?

I go to a local conference and trade show as a public employee (engineer). At these conferences, which include both private sector consultants and service providers, private utilities, and us public utilities. They have a silent auction with donated stuff for charity. They also have booths on the the show floor where companies will have a free prize raffle, often for something like a Yeti cooler, a laptop, or just a bottle of bourbon.

The last program of the day was the state ethics officer (helping us get our 2 hours of ethics continuing education we need for licensure) who told us we can’t even win the fucking silent auction unless we pay retail value, and if we won a prize from the show floor, we had to donate it to our employer (or just not accept it if it was alcohol).

Meanwhile SCOTUS justices can accept shit worth more than I make in a year (on in the case of Thomas, Alito, and the late Scalia, a decade) and its fucking OK.

I had a government job where I could be fired for accepting a pad of paper or a plastic pen that probably cost 25 cents… lol

And you can only write off up to $400 in out of pocket expenses too. Let’s remove all the loopholes and show them how much teachers give up to teach

Also the Supreme Court legalized tipping this year (after they were caught receiving undisclosed gifts). So if we hold teachers to the same standards as we do our court justices, you could get paid, I’m sorry I meant *tipped* for giving favorable grades. Little Eric and Jr need some A’s but they’re too dumb and lazy to earn it on their own merit? Simply stress to the teacher the need for A’s, then when they magically get them on their report cards, you can *tip* the teacher a generous reward. As long as the payment is retroactive, it’s totally fine!

Executive branch is like 20$ unless you are the president

Damn. You have to confirm you’re actually working once a year? Brutal