Maybe There is Another Plan for Me.....

So as I mentioned in my first post, I go to Kutztown University to study Special and Elementary education. Maybe. And I say maybe because for the first time in my life I'm having to seriously consider changing my major- not willingly either. The problem is Pennslyvania education laws. In order to be certified you must pass x many of college classes with C's or better, have and maintain a 3.00 during your entire time in the college of education of your respective college and take these pre- enterance tests known as Praxis or Papas which are the newer tests. You also have to have this done by a certain time (usually second semester sophomore year or at the beginning of your junior year) So this entire past month of June - which has been a crappy one might I add I have been working tirelessly to pass my class that I need to get the C in and raise my GPA. All in about the 10 weeks  tests, take the math of summer. Needless to say it isn't going so well. While my class is done and Im pretty sure I got the grade I needed my GPA isn't where it needs to be and I'm pretty sure I have to retake all of my praxis. The praxis are basically the SAT's on steroids. In case you haven't realized by now its hard to just get accepted into education program and education majors work very hard to end up as teachers. So will the public please stop saying how teaching is easy or its for people who can't do anything else? Because its very hard work! Did I mention that Pennsylvania is the hardest state to get your teacher certification in? Because it is!

Because Im going into my junior year with no concrete major- and Mommy and Daddy wont be thrilled if I have to become a super senior Mommy and I talked about how I might actually have to look into other career options. Unwillingly also. See the personal problem is I've wanted to be a teacher probably since the first day of kindergarten. So I'm devasted about possibly giving up my dream and only career option that I have ever looked at for the past 15 years just for some stupid requirements.  So I've been looking at my school's website that lists all the different majors with the idea that maybe social work would be the next thing to seriously consider- mainly because I feel its the closest thing to education that my school offers. Either that or psychology but even though I don't want to I'm starting to lean to social work because after some poking around I learned that I could get an education degree as my master degree as long as I have a bachelor in social work. So maybe everything will work out for my in the long run. or maybe if I change my major I will actually like social work and not even want to get my education degree.