From today’s TFN News Clips:
“It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach.”
— Alabama Republican state Sen. Shadrack McGill, offering a novel argument against raising teacher salaries. But McGill, who was speaking at a prayer breakfast, defended a 62 percent pay hike Alabama legislators approved for themselves in 2007.
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Who let him out of the firey furnace, anyway? Did Meshack and Abednego get out, too?
What a maroon!
Just a matter of time before we get to “They should pay us for the privilege to teach our children!”