Many of the faculty are not as professionally active as they should be, many of the faculty don't even go out to schools or their syllabi are pretty dated. A lot of the new requirements are going to change that. Biemer said she is not concerned that stricter admissions standards will reduce the pool of potential teachers. As the profession rises you will have more top-notch people deciding it's a profession worthy of going into, more worthy than some of them think now. The more status a profession has, the more people are attracted to it.
Good teachers are severely underpaid.
And many schools are severely under-resourced, too. The changes are not, however, a panacea for all the problems laid at the school door. Although society has always turned to education to solve a multitude of problems, Biemer said it's unrealistic to expect schools to provide all the solutions. Teachers are working with children only six hours a day. That's why the state is saying in these standards that there needs to be more work with families, there needs to be more work with communities because teachers can't do it alone.