Alabama Senator: Increasing Teacher Pay Is Unbiblical (But I Need A Raise)

[babylonsister]

Alabama Senator: Increasing Teacher Pay Is Unbiblical (But I Need A Raise)
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:36pm —
Henry Decker


Alabama State Senator Shadrack McGill told a group of constituents at a prayer breakfast this week that raising teachers' pay is not Biblical -- but that he supports a 62 percent pay raise for state lawmakers like himself.

McGill, a Republican from Woodville, told the audience that the Bible explains why raising salaries for educators would not increase the quality of education. The Dekalb County Times Journal reported McGill's comments on Tuesday:

"Teachers need to make the money that they need to make. There needs to be a balance there. If you double what you're paying education, you know what's going to happen? I've heard the comment many times, ‘Well, the quality of education's going to go up.' That's never proven to happen, guys.

It's a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher's pay scale, you'll attract people who aren't called to teach.

To go in and raise someone's child for eight hours a day, or many people's children for eight hours a day, requires a calling. It better be a calling in your life. I know I wouldn't want to do it, OK?"

As McGill says, he wasn't "called to teach;" he instead wanted to be a politician. Thankfully for McGill, apparently God doesn't want to limit compensation for his chosen profession. At the same prayer breakfast, McGill defended a controversial 62 percent pay hike for state lawmakers by claiming that it would cut down on corruption. The pay raise passed in 2007 after then-Governor Bob Riley's veto was overridden.

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/alabama-senator-raising-teacher-pay-violates-bible-lawmakers-should-get-huge-raise

[rurallib]

1. maybe teachers should start dressing like race car drivers?

all the advertising etc. Maybe that would be a good protest?
(didn't mean to offend - my mind going a little goofy today.)

[The Genealogist]

2. Pardon my vulgarity, but what the FUCK is this idiot talking about?

Where in the Bible does God address how much of a raise public school teachers should get? I mean is it before or after God forbids cotton-poly blends, or is it closer to where God forbids cheeseburgers?

I know people like this shit for brains just love to worship the Bible as if it were, itself, a pagan idol of some sort. But at some point, this society must ask "does this representative in a SECULAR American government really have any business interjecting his or her religious text into government, and for that matter, has he or she even read the text to begin with?"

[babylonsister]

5. Your vulgarity is okay by me; he's a flaming idiot imo. nt

[SheilaT]

3. Obviously this man has

never heard the saying, "You get what you pay for." In reality, low pay in many jobs insures a low quality employee.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. "Biblical Principle" code for BS

As screwed up as actual "Biblical Principles" can be, he's just making shit up.