Financial Aid PLEASE HELP!!

[baco623]

I am currently looking towards the future, what I'm going to do and how I'm going to make a living. After 8 years in college I will finally be graduating college in May. After I graduate I would like to go into a teaching credential program and get a secondary teaching credential to teach either history or english in public high school and maybe even a Masters in education. However my top choice of schools is going to cost around $25,000.

I am wondering if anyone knows of various scholarships of any kind that will help me pay for school. I've already gotten a number of the more common cystic firbosis scholarships to pay for my undergraduate degree so I can't use them again. I am looking for anything, I am willing to fill out as many applications and write as many essays I need to to pay for school. Disability or non disability/memorial or non memorial/corrperate or private scholarships are all okay with me. Please Please Please Help!!!

26 F/ CF/ CFRD/ double lung tx

 

[CrisDopher]

Baco, I can't point you toward financial aid, as it's been more than a decade since I was last in school, but I do want to ask about your career goals? What have you been doing for 8 years in college that DIDN'T result in a teaching certificate? (if, assuming, teaching is what you had in mind for the last few years.) And being post-tx, are you sure it's a good idea to teach in a public school? The uncontrollable germ factor alone would have me reconsidering.

Moreover... Class sizes are large, teachers are stressed and harried, and -- let's face it -- teaching in public schools is now a miserable experienced, where the power to teach has been taken out of the hands of those trained to do so and put into the hands of people trained to push paper around and crunch numbers. Were I contemplating entering public teaching at this point in time, I'd hope someone would smack me upside the head and knock some sense into me, personally. Of course, I taught in the public schools (briefly) at a time when teachers had overall goals to meet, educationally, and how they got it done was up to them. Kids had plenty of recess, PE, and arts education mixed in with the other essentials and teachers had the latitude to tailor their approaches to individual students as needed. Tests were something that were used as a metric of a students success at learning the material presented, rather than goals in and of themselves (as they currently are, along with the concomitant misuse of the results as a metric of teacher effectiveness.)

Sorry for the rant. Please consider a different career or finding a private school. I can't recommend a career in public education to anyone, right now.

Cris Dopher, BSEd (x2), MA, MFA