"It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach. To go in and raise someone’s child for eight hours a day, or many people’s children for eight hours a day, requires a calling. It better be a calling in your life. I know I wouldn’t want to do it, OK? 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. And there are also some teachers, it wouldn’t matter how much you would pay them, they would still perform to the same capacity. If you don’t keep that in balance, you’re going to attract people who are not called, who don’t need to be teaching our children. So, everything has a balance."
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Alabama State Senator thinks raising teacher pay is against the teachings of the Bible (via desertmar)

So we should pay teachers less to make sure only people who really really really want to be teachers become teachers? WHAT THE FUCK. Teaching is one of the hardest jobs out there. Unlike office jobs, you don’t get to sit in front of a computer and tune out when you don’t feel like working. Teaching requires all of your attention, all of the time. Teachers deserve to be compensated fairly for the incredibly difficult job that they do, and to suggest otherwise — particularly to give it some bullshit Biblical explanation — is an affront to the entire profession.

I have no doubt that there are thousands of people in America who would have been great teachers. But given the shitty salary, the dwindling public funding, and this kind of crap from legislators, they wisely went into another profession.

I’d love to see him suggest politicians cut their salary, since legislating and creating laws for other people definitely requires a “calling.”

-Jess

(via stfuconservatives)

ALL the commentary.

Also: Teaching is not “raising someone’s child for 8 hours a day”. 

(Source: nom-chompsky)