Lawmaker wants teachers trained to avoid inappropriate student relationships Alabama has had a problem with teachers having inappropriate relationships with students, and Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, is proposing a solution. Butler introduced a bill, HB409, calling for annual training for teachers "to include instruction on recognizing and avoiding conduct and behavior that is considered inappropriate in the student-teacher relationship." About Alabama's teachers, Butler said, "99.9 percent of teachers are amazing," Butler said, adding it's only a small fraction of teachers who break the law. Butler, who filed a similar bill last year, said the issue hit home for him when two of Etowah County's teachers were arrested in ... Continue reading... http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/lawmaker_proposes_training_for.html
