Career Paths

I'm majoring in Education with a focus in physical education and health right now. I plan on teaching high school even though with the degree I would recieve would allow me to teach k-12 which opens up more oppurtunitites for me. I'm reconsidering this though. Maybe I want to teach elementary school. I actually think that might be fun. I don't mind kids. Unlike some people I do not think they are little demons and want to punt them like a football across the room.

I'm not sure how serious I am about this yet though. I would love gym because I would be constantly moving and get to play sports for my job basically. Plus there's no homework to grade and if I gave quizzes it would be simple things like what part of your body cannot touch a soccer ball? Wow. Difficult, I know.

We've been talking about the differences between the grade levels in my intro to ed class though and it's got me wondering. I'm not so sure I would be good at it though. It's a big weight that would be on my shoulders because statistics show that if a child gets inadequate learning for one grade it takes years to catch back up. I don't want to screw up a kid like that. You can't really screw up P.E. You can but it's dificult unless you're a fat chick who bitches about stupid crap and not being fit but thinks she can play sports.

I really want to teach health though. Even though I know freshmen don't really care that they shouldn't be doing drugs or drinking alcohol until they are 25 so that it doesn't affect the growth of they're brains. And I know that they will just ignore me when I try to teach them about sex but I know that there are always a few good kids out there who will listen. I was one of them.

I'm kind of on the fence right now. We'll see what happens. I'll probably end up sticking with health and gym though.