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I'm currently graduating from community college and am in the process of transferring to a 4 year school to get my bachelors, but they said this when I was asking questions about my major.

Your major is listed as Childhood Ed. You can get your BS in it but we do not have a graduate degree in Childhood Ed. You can get a graduate degree in Special Ed or Literacy if you would like, which we do have. You still have plenty of time to figure that out.

Does anyone know what it would mean if I can't get a Graduate degree but I can get a BS? Because I will need my masters bc teachers need to be in New york state but I dont need to right away, I don't necessarily need it from this school, and im not 100% sure if thats what a graduate degree is.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, college terms confuse me and the only other people I can probubly ask is my parents and they would probubly make fun of me for not knowing (also BS means a bachlors degree right?)

(Im not fixing misspelled words in on purpose to show how bad it is)

Hi so im 19 and about to graduate with my Assosiats degree in childhood education (1st-6th grade) and I have a really hard time spelling. Ive had an issue with spelling for as long as I can remember and used to get extra help with it in elementary school but once I hit middle school I guess there wasnt a program for me or no one saw an issue since a lot of assignments were online and I had auto correct.

Thats currently how im getting by in college, auto correct and voice typing are my life line, but I dont want to religh on them anymore especialy when I wont be able to when im teaching in a classroom.

Im pretty sure the main issue with my spelling is because when I was in early elementary school I was told to sound things out to spell them, but it isnt the case with a lot of words and I never broke that habit. I can usually recognise when I spell a word wrong bc it looks wrong but it takes me a minute to figure out the correct spelling and a lot of the time I cant even tell which one is right or not and have to look it up.

I know I should have gotten help sooner because of my career choice but ive only known what I want to do for about a year and its genuanly so embarising I just wanted to ignore the problem.

I know this makes me sound stupid but I swear im not I actually have a 3.97 GPA (flexing) I just cant spell :(

What's the firs thing you read on this site? The firs thing I read was- Oh! My Assistant ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Hi, I'm a 18 year old trans man in the USA, I live in a blue state but in a red county and I'm currently in my second semester of college for early childhood education. Becoming a teacher has been my goal for a couple years but I'm starting to wonder if it'll be worth it to get a degree in teaching in the first place because of anti-trans hate and stigmas around trans people in schools.

I was fairly confident in my career path at first but after the president got elected in November there has been a lot more anti trans hate surfacing and the government has been taking away anti-discrimination laws that protected trans people. So if I get my degree schools might not be willing to hire me because they don't want to face backlash from parents or the govt for having a trans person interact with kids.

I have a couple different options I've been thinking about-

-go back in the closet - its defiantly not ideal but it would be safer for me. I would still be out to friends and family but at work I would be in the closet.

-become non binary? - I know this probably wouldn't make too much a difference but I feel it might help a bit bc they would probably see me as more feminine but I would still be able to see myself as masculine.

-become a high school teacher- not ideal but I feel like high school teachers have more leeway with they're lifestyle choices because they're working with teenagers and not young children. Especially if I major in math because there's a shortage of math teachers so they might be more inclined to hire me. The only issue is I don't like math or working with teenagers :( I'd be willing to try for this though.

-live loud and proud - what I want to do but it will probably be a lot harder for me. I will probably have a much harder time and may not be able to get a job in education as a result.

-switch career paths- I have no idea what I want to do other than education. If you have any suggestions that would be more friendly to trans people please let me know, I honestly have no idea what else I would want to do other than education but its good to know all my options.

Thank you for reading this and thank you for any advice you might offer me, but please keep your advice realistic. I know that I would love to live out as a trans elementary school teacher but that's not the easiest thing right now, so please let me know what you think might be the best option for me to have a secure future.

Everything happening right now is very stressful but I wish all of you the best and I hope everyone stays safe