Mobile, Alabama – Students at Alabama public schools won't be able to give their teachers gift certificates or anything deemed valuable without breaking Alabama's new ethics law.
Jim Sumner, , director of the Alabama Ethics Commission,l says students can still bake cookies or bring in something consumable such as hand lotion or a candle, a potted plant or a coffee cup.
Sumner says cash or anything that a teacher could resell is not permitted, as are holiday turkeys and ham.
The law is vague, stating that an item must be of ``de minimis'' value, which, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, means ``lacking significance or importance.
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