Alabama State Senator: Pay Increases for Teachers are Against ‘Biblical Principle’
Cross-posted with permission from Talk2Action. By K12NN contributor Rachel Tabachnick.
Rachel Tabachnick
This is a new twist on “biblical economics” that I’ve not heard before. According to Alabama State Sen. Shadrack McGill, a 62% pay increase for the state’s legislators in 2007 was necessary, but large increases in teachers’ pay would violate “a biblical principle.” McGill was speaking on January 30 at a prayer breakfast that he organized in Ft. Payne, Alabama. McGill voiced his objections to separation of church later that same day at a Jackson County School Board meeting that resembled a revival; participants prayed and sang with their hands
