Teachers all over the State are praying they don't get a raise . . .

Alabama teachers' pay raises are not Biblical.

Shadrack McGill, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Ft. Payne, who defended a sixty two percent legislative pay raise of a few years ago, said in an interview this week that a significant raise in teacher's pay is not Biblical.  He said that teaching is a calling.  If teachers' pay is raised too high, it will attract people who are teaching, not because they are called, but because of the big money.  And we need teachers who teach because they are called.   Reasonable salaries would defile the purity of their calling.

I assume he is tying this weird explanation to the Bible because of the calling of prophets and disciples. He didn't say, exactly.

Shadrack supported the legislative pay raise in Biblical language as well.  He said that raising legislators' pay prevented the lawmakers from being tempted.  Tempted to take bribes.

Lead me not into temptation Lord . . . a little cash will make it easier to resist evil.

Teachers must surely be relieved that legislators are once again helping them walk the straight and narrow and maintain the purity of their calling by helping them resist the evils of the love of money.  There is no sleep for the weary.  It was only a couple of months ago that the new state ethics legislation enacted by Shadrack and his guardian angels of the educators put an end to the shameful practice of students giving Christmas gifts to teachers.

Many a teacher has succumbed to the illicit urge to fudge on a grade or look the other way for an unexcused absence when seduced by the siren song of a fruitcake, coffee mug, bath oil, or scarf offered by an amoral elementary tempter, or temptress, evilly presented under the auspices of Christmas.  Shameful.

More money will help legislator's do their job better.

More money will hurt the quality of teachers.

And it is all Biblical.  Somehow.

Shadrack might want to review the story of his Biblical namesake in the, Book of Daniel, Chapter 3,

 Shadrach did not burn because he was saved by standing for truth.

That is Biblical.

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