Different problems have cropped up at different schools. Sometimes it has been the principal excited about reforming and the teachers dragging their feet. Sometimes the principal has been cool to the HEF's ideas. Sometimes a minority of teachers have wanted to make changes but, lacking administrative support, have found it hard going.
「願意接納人本的老師，原本就是待孩子比較寬鬆、不威嚴的老師，」人本南投工作站主任黃少甫說，各校遭遇的問題不同，有的是校長熱心、老師不積極；有的是校長不願領軍；有的則是少數老師有心突破，但少了行政系統的支持，在教學改革上，自然不那麼順利。