Should I Go For Child Development?

[cj071995]

I'm a freshman considering going to get my CDA certification then going to to school to get my associates then bachelors. I had thoughts about doing the program in high school, but was afraid what everyone will think and plus there are not that many black males. So Should I go for it or not?

[Baldric]

CDA ???
This is a UK Site.

[bednobs]

sorry i have no idea wht your post means

[VHG]

web site is theanswerbank.co.uk

Note UK !!!

[Togo]

cj may be posting from the UK folks.

[jourdain2]

I'm afraid I don't understand the references. You must be American. If considering your future career, however, I would always advise anyone to go for what really interests them especially if they can look forward and see that they will still be interested and contributing in 40 years time. I don't quite see what gender or colour have to do with anything - it's your brain, character and innate abilities that count. Hope this helps.

[Clanad]

For those on this site that are in the UK, the poster has said he/she is in the first year of advanced school (generally called "college" in the U.S. As a freshman the poster is asking if they should obtain the Child Development Associate Credential. This is the basic stepping stone to becoming a teacher or otherwise an instructor of children.

The CDA is based on a core set of competency standards, which guide early care professionals as they work toward becoming qualified teachers of young children. In and of itself, it doesn't provide much but is necessary for advancement in the field of early childhood development… one site says "...CDAs know how to nurture the emotional, physical, intellectual, and social development of children…"

It can be interpolated that the poster is a black male student and believes that is some sort of hindrance to achieving the CDA… I don't understand why…

I'd say, if you're this interested then go for it.

The responders are correct, this is a U.K. site, but there are a few of us 'Yanks" that visit regularly for the entertainment value and occasionally exchange of great information...

[Baldric]

As he's a Freshman, I'll bet he's not Togo!

[Togo]

clanad for some reason certain posters on our site get their gander up when they sniff a yank. They don't seem to do it when its a Canadian or an Aussie.
When he said he was a freshman I thought he might be a recent transgender
post op. type 'freshman'.

[Baldric]

///certain posters on our site get their gander up when they sniff a yank///

So advising he's on a UK site equates to getting one's gander up (sure you don't mean Dander?) in your world does it?

[Clanad]

Not entirely an unrealistic assumption in this day and age Togo… In college here (as well as high school), it's Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior… perhaps the same in the U.K.?

[Peter Pedant]

go for it and good luck

[Togo]

//Surprised this hasn't been asked here before, as someone mentioned to
me the other that the normal expression is to get your dander up,
whereas I had always heard it as "get your gander up". I did a couple
of searches, and it seems both terms are in use, although the former
is certainly more common.
If you search for both "gander up" and "dander up", you get a lot of
people "correcting" others about using one or the other. It seems
like both are valid variants - otherwise why would they occur so
often.
Hoping I haven't got anyone's [d|g]ander up...//
Do look them both up.

[Togo]

//CDA ???
This is a UK Site.//
I didn't mind that he was on site.

[Peter Pedant]

wel I've been goosed !

gander is only used in the country areas for a male goose

dander for the ruff of a dog and so on altho I note there is a cognate with dandruff

[Jackdaw33]

Freshman or Fresher is only used in the UK to describe those embarking on their first year at university. The term sophomore is not used here.

[retrocop]

Friendly lot on this site aren't we?

[Baldric]

1) //CDA ???
2)This is a UK Site.//
3)I didn't mind that he was on site.

1) I'm querying CDA, never heard of it.
2) I'm advising this is a UK site based on his use of Freshman.
3) I don't mind that he is on site either, at least he asked a straightforward question and is not Nitpicking!

[jourdain2]

Most of us are, retrocop. :)

[Togo]

//3) I don't mind that he is on site either, at least he asked a straightforward question and is not Nitpicking!//
So he deserved a straight forward answer. CDA?? The definition was easy enough to find online. Answerbank is to find an answer to every question. Not a question to every answer. Or so I was told.