Editor,
The Huffington Post article about this starts with the following: “Someone alert the unions: Raising teacher pay will actually make for worse teachers — according to one GOP lawmaker.”
Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill said, at an Alabama prayer breakfast this week, 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 gave.”
Hmm … Senator McGill may be right! And might it not also be against “a biblical principle” to pay our elected officials and the CEOs of corporations and others in positions of authority what they are currently being paid, because by doing so, we are attracting people who aren’t called to perform those tasks? Those who are called to perform those tasks, regardless of the pay scale, would perform those tasks.
It’s just in them to do. It’s the ability that God gave them.
Robert Gardiner
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