Move over Clark Griswold: Alabama schools dishing out bonuses during coronavirus
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Baldwin County Superintendent Eddie Tyler speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony outside the new high school and middle school opened in Orange Beach, Ala., on Monday, August 10, 2020. Tyler announced last week that all employees within the school system is receiving a $1,000 check called extraordinary compensation. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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The jelly-of-the-month club was for discouraged Clark Griswold. For growing number of Alabama teachers this month, an unexpected extra $500 to $1,000 bonus is being greeted with Christmas season joy.
Thirty-one years since “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” put the concept of the Christmas bonus into the mainstream, the coronavirus is kicking it up a notch: Instead of the corporate boardroom, the latest round of holiday bonuses are being dished out by elected school boards throughout Ala