Does anyone regret their BALS?

[Nadiv10]

I hope this is the riggt thread. I noticed too late that I posted this in the wrong thread before. I have edited that post to fit the thread. Out of curiosity and potential health and financial constraints for me, I'm curious if anyone has gone for a bals with a concentration like in cs or information systems and been successfulsful or is it not worth it? I know you can teach with them but has anyone felt hampered by it?

[Alpha]

I hope this is the riggt thread. I noticed too late that I posted this in the wrong thread before. I have edited that post to fit the thread. Out of curiosity and potential health and financial constraints for me, I'm curious if anyone has gone for a bals with a concentration like in cs or information systems and been successfulsful or is it not worth it? I know you can teach with them but has anyone felt hampered by it?

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say, "I know you can teach with them..."  You can in fact teach with a BALS if you mean that you can teach in some type of K-12 school but only IF you have a teaching certificate to go along with it.  In that regard, I'm pretty sure that you can teach with any Bachelors degree as long as you have the requisite teaching certificate.  This is a state law issue and so the requirements will vary from place to place but I'm not aware of any state in which you can teach K-12 without some form of teaching certificate/license.  The degree alone is not enough.

[Raine]

I hope this is the riggt thread. I noticed too late that I posted this in the wrong thread before. I have edited that post to fit the thread. Out of curiosity and potential health and financial constraints for me, I'm curious if anyone has gone for a bals with a concentration like in cs or information systems and been successfulsful or is it not worth it? I know you can teach with them but has anyone felt hampered by it?

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say, "I know you can teach with them..."  You can in fact teach with a BALS if you mean that you can teach in some type of K-12 school but only IF you have a teaching certificate to go along with it.  In that regard, I'm pretty sure that you can teach with any Bachelors degree as long as you have the requisite teaching certificate.  This is a state law issue and so the requirements will vary from place to place but I'm not aware of any state in which you can teach K-12 without some form of teaching certificate/license.  The degree alone is not enough.

Where I'm from, licensure is not always required at private schools as long as you have a relevant degree.

[Alpha]

I hope this is the riggt thread. I noticed too late that I posted this in the wrong thread before. I have edited that post to fit the thread. Out of curiosity and potential health and financial constraints for me, I'm curious if anyone has gone for a bals with a concentration like in cs or information systems and been successfulsful or is it not worth it? I know you can teach with them but has anyone felt hampered by it?

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say, "I know you can teach with them..."  You can in fact teach with a BALS if you mean that you can teach in some type of K-12 school but only IF you have a teaching certificate to go along with it.  In that regard, I'm pretty sure that you can teach with any Bachelors degree as long as you have the requisite teaching certificate.  This is a state law issue and so the requirements will vary from place to place but I'm not aware of any state in which you can teach K-12 without some form of teaching certificate/license.  The degree alone is not enough.

Where I'm from, licensure is not always required at private schools as long as you have a relevant degree.

I'm not certain, but I think that's true where I live too.  Private schools can hire anyone they want.  But I've also heard that they are pickier about hiring people, preferring people with experience and even grad degrees.  I once knew a woman with a law degree who taught at a private school while she was building her practice.  She had no teaching certificate or experience but they liked saying (to their student's parents who were paying a lot of money) that their kiddo was being taught History by an attorney.