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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a link to the ethics policy:  http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/bbb.pdf

Teachers may accept an unsolicited gift that does not exceed $20 in value, or an unsolicited series of gifts not exceeding $100 in value in a calendar year, or trivial items of informational value.

It looks like the BoE adopted this part of the ethics policy in October 2012, in response to a state law from 2010 requiring local boards of education to have a policy about conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, and lobbying. [/quote]

It’s like the Residency policy.  There is name only and impossible to enforce.  Nobody is going to enforce a policy of $20 per gift.  Just like nobody from MCPS enforces the policy of making sure that kids live in boundary (as evidenced by the dozens of kids at our ES who live out of boundary and don’t have a COSA).[/quote]

Are you saying that it's ok for you to violate the policy because you're not going to get caught?

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Please.  Get off your high horse.  Do you speed?  Do you pay your undocumented nanny under the table?

If I want to give my kid's excellent teacher $50, then I will.  And, yes, better yet that I'm not going to get caught.  [/quote]

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