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I always knew going into this profession that I was going to get paid tons of money. Most people that go into this profession do it for the love of working with children and want to give them a good education. I know that these were my reasons for choosing this profession. I believe that the reasons for our GPA standards are set much higher than others because we have the responsibility of teaching other people. If don't know the content or information, we can't teach the students to be sucessful. I do agree that if our standards were to be set lower, then students would not try and as hard we do now. I know that I am always trying to do my best to make sure that my grades don't slip and having to maintain a 2.8 GPA to stay in the education program here at Cortland, it strives me to want to do well in all of my classes.

However, what is upsetting to be about this article is that fact that education majors work so hard to get to where they need to go and others jobs who don't require much education background at all can walk into a classroom and substitute teach or actually teach a class. That is saying that anyone can teach, which if that is the case, why do we need to work so hard and go to school for five years? I don't like all of this controversy over getting paid less than other professions, but I do know that teachers know ahead of time walking into the profession, the pay is not high, but we do it for the love of children. I wish our profession was taken much more seriously than it is portrayed today!