What is hard to understand is that there are FReepers who don't support MINIMUM standards for teachers, knowing as they do that the teachers unions play a large role in the democrat party AND the dumbing down of America.
But most importantly if you don't have minimum standards of competence in all areas of intellectual accomplishment you don't have any standards at all. At all.
And you know in your heart that the test is not that hard and that this woman was given every aid in trying to pass the test.
"Minimum standard for teachers" is just a tweaking of the parameters in the system by which the NEA defends its guild interests: the really corrupting, hidden monopoly which has destroyed American elementary and secondary education, the teachers colleges.
Breaking that monopoly with "freedom to teach" laws which allow anyone with a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and a good GPA (say 3.3 or better) to teach grades 4-12 in their own major field is the only real way forward. Once that was in place, raising teacher salaries would actually help education. Without "freedom to teach" legislation additional education spending is money down a rat-hole.