Sex offender paid not to work

You can't make up stories like this, folks.

A teacher in Washington County, Alabama, was convicted for enticing a former student for sex. She was fired from her teaching job a year ago.

But - even as she serves time in federal prison - she still gets paid her full salary.

School officials say it's because state law lets teachers challenge firings before an arbitrator - which has forced the school to keep paying her while the challenge goes on.

Um. Hello??? This has been going on a whole year!

I'm all for the law to let teachers challenge dismissals. But I want to know who in the school system has been dragging their feet so a sex offender gets paid not to work.

I believe the law was designed to protect good educators who were wrongly fired - not federal lawbreakers. Just think of all the good teachers who won't see a pay raise this year because the school system is paying a federal inmate her full salary.

Must be nice being a sex offender. You don't have to work, and still you get paid. That really is the life, isn't it?

(Source: http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/46721327.html)