ONE YEAR LATER AND A LITTLE MORE TO SHOW FOR IT.

I am considering going back to school in order to become certified to teach. There is much research that still needs to be done, but I feel a lot more confident about it than I did a year ago. I took the job at the high school at which i work in order to gain that insight, and I would say that this past year has done exactly that. I thoroughly enjoy the interaction that I get on a daily basis with the kids.
Although I am more certain that I want to teach, I am also quite certain that I do not want to pursue a career in special education. Do not get me wrong, this past year has been incredibly rewarding. I would like to pursue general education, because I would be able to teach a more advanced curriculum to kids that would enjoy it more and get more out of it. (Hopefully. Ideally. Idealistically.) One of the things that I have noticed about special education is that in my opinion, there are many instances in which the best interests of the student are not being served. Instead of teaching many of these kids about earth space science, it would be more realistic to teach them how to manage a bank account, or some other skill that they might actually use later in life. There is a lot of bureaucracy involved, and frankly, it is rather disheartening. I am not naive enough to believe that the same element does not exist in general education, but I do feel like I would be able to make more of a difference there. Time will tell if this is something that will come to fruition in any rapid sort of fashion, but again, I feel fairly confident that it will occur eventually.