Career?!

I've always had a secret interest to teach. I know I wouldn't mind teaching at the college level, but I would really like to teach at the public school level. Currently, I am a Sales Assistant in a large publishing house. I love to read and I like publishing but this is not hte position that I desire. I would prefer to be in Marketing. I do not feel like there is any creative aspect of m yjob which is what I desire. I nejoyed making sell-sheets and things like that, or brain storming to think of different ways to push books. In Sales you only think of ways to sell books, which doesn't really include the 'pretty' part of marketing.

So I was accepted for an interview for NYC Teaching Fellows, but I never went for the interview because I was then hired for this position. But now, I just keep thinking about teaching. And surprise, surprise it pays more than my current job. I am at $32,000. Teaching starts at $43,000. Thats a good $11,000 difference. That's my school loans.

Then there is school. For the NYC teaching fellows position you have to sign up for a Master of Education program at a NYC school. It is subsidized and you only end up paying about $6,600 of your tuition. That's fine, my only problem is right now I am currently in an online only Master of Communication program. I think that if I ever want to teach at a college level I will need a Ph.D. And I would much rather have my MA in Communication alone or along with a MA in Education than to just have an MA in Education. So I am caught in a limbo. If I would have taken the full-time track I would be finished in a year and that would not conflict. But I am on the part-time two year track. :-/ I really do not know what I should do?

Any, any suggestions would help. You may ask yourself why I want to teach so bad... Well it is because the school system seems to be failing inner-city children, to the point where they are running trial programs which pay children to do well. They literally give them money based on their grades. I do not agree with this at all. It's not like this program is for 12th graders, to promote them to move on out of the system. This is for like fourth graders and 5th graders. Then when they are promoted and in junior high their ambition drops right back down because they feel like they need to be paid to educate themselves. Does anybody else besides me see the ugly irony in this?