I am a second year Elementary Education student and I go to WGU. I could choose to double major in elementary education and special education but I need to decide soon. I am interested in special ed but it does intimidate me, but I was thinking I should do it because it would probably make me a better overall teacher and I could learn more about special ed in the process.
I was recently making small talk with someone who I just met who was a teacher and they told me if I double major, any school I work for will force me into being a special ed teacher and that no district would let someone who had a special ed degree work in a gen ed classroom. She told me not to do it and it turned the conversation so weird.
This came across as crazy to me. Is there any validity in this? If I got hired for a gen ed elementary position, could the school tell me part way through the year that I had to move to special ed? Can schools make you change classrooms, grades, and gen ed vs special ed whenever they want?
Update: holy crap she was right! I am reading your replies feeling flabbergasted and naive. Admin side of things really does whatever they want