Shadrack McGill, Alabama State Senator, Says Keeping Teacher Pay Low 'A Biblical Principle'

[proud2BlibKansan]

Someone alert the unions: raising teacher pay will actually make for worse teachers--according to one GOP lawmaker.

Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill said that increasing teacher pay is against "a biblical principle" because it might attract people who otherwise wouldn't do the job.

"Teachers need to make the money that they need to make," McGill said, according to the Times-Journal. "If you double a teacher's pay scale, you'll attract people who aren't called to teach ... and these teachers that are called to teach, regardless of the pay scale, they would teach. It's just in them to do. It's the ability that God give 'em."

McGill's comments came at a prayer breakfast this week in Fort Payne, Ala. State legislators are currently weighing raising teacher pay. One GOP leader proposed raising salaries of newer teachers by 2.5 percent, but critics argue that it isn't fair to longer-serving educators, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

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[lob1]

1. I think Shadrack has explained why he's a senator.

[Turbineguy]

2. Apparently the only intelligent

people in Alabama were illegal aliens. And they left.

[Skwid]

3. Yeah, well, genocide, slavery and killing children for making fun of a bald priest are biblical too.

[EFerrari]

4. With a name like "Shadrack", what else could he say?

I blame his parents, myself.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. That there's a good ol boy!

What a knuckledragger.

[LogicalGenius]

10. What an ignorant buffoon

Dear Kids,
This is what a dumbass looks like. To see more examples, visit Sand Mountain, Alabama, the collection of hillbilly hollows that elected this prehistoric specimen. That is, unless you're black, Jewish, Catholic, gay, or an unmarried woman over 21 because in that case, you are evil and not welcome and it's probably not safe for you to venture there.

[saras]

6. One of these days a right-winger will spout Lorem Ipsum entire and complete...

[Zoeisright]

7. I'll give you a "biblical principle", you asshole.

I hate these fucking repukes more every day.

[arely staircase]

8. well, bless his heart. nt

[niyad]

9. in exactly WHICH bible do you find this principle, shaddy? because it certainly isn't in any of the

bibles with which I am acquainted.