Alabama Republican Senator: Low teacher pay mandated by God
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/02/alabama-republican-claims-low-teacher-pay-a-biblical-mandate/
A Republican State Senator from Alabama claimed this week that keeping teacher salaries low is actually an order from the Christian deity figure, imparted in ancient texts written by Jewish tribesmen thousands of years ago.
Speaking at a prayer breakfast recently, Alabama state Senator Shadrack McGill praised giving pay raises to politicians, saying that it helps to prevent bribery. Then he shifted gears and went in the opposite direction with regards to teachers, arguing against a bill that would increase their salaries.
“Teachers need to make the money that they need to make,” he said, according to Alabama newspaper The Times-Journal. “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 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?”
OMG REALLY???!!!
You pay these people shit then they just aren't going to care about what they do. I don't think any teacher is looking make Mitt Romney Salary but hell they'd be happy to make in a year what Mittens makes in a day.
And think about this. You pay teachers a decent salary you're going to have more people applying for the job which gives you the chance to pick the very best of the applicants. Whereas you pay teachers crap you're going to lose alot of talented teachers who can't survive making less than $30k.
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I'll bet a donut that part of the subtext here is conservatives pining for the days when teachers were women, and women knew their place, and were happy to get any kind of job that the patriarchy allowed them.
Pls have a kind thought and some sympathy for those of us stuck with morans like that in the legislature.
Like the prophets...
Methinks the good senator needs to read it again.
but it finds its way into the Gospels as well. Suggesting Jesus himself or at least the very initial members of the group thought paying teachers was important. The obvious reason being it is a notion found in the old testament as well. Would one think a book written by religious teachers would tell you teachers are not worth paying? Of course not. Apparently only people that don't read the bible but claim to speak from authority about it believe this is true. It is really sad 
It's sadder these people are in legislative positions.
It's also Christian to take the food out of the mouths of children, the elderly, the poor, and the disabled 
