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I wouldn’t waste my money on a teaching degree.  You don’t need that to teach at a catholic school (or you shouldn’t...find a school that does t require it).  You won’t get paid much and you’ll never be able to pay off the debt.  Either get a degree in something that pays well, or if you want to be a teacher, still get a degree in a “back up” plan (ie engineering or business or IT).  

Presuming you are the OP, would you go in for teaching to get "Just about the shortest working days and longest holidays you can possibly get"?

Are you really interested in nurturing children?  

Have you checked with teachers just how much time you would have to spend n lesson preparations, staff meetings, parent-teacher meetings etc etc. And are you prepared to deal with all sorts of obnoxious topics like "gender identity" etc etc. even in "Catholic" schools. I don't think that teaching in a school would be just a bowl of cherries as your post paints it.

OP here. I’d like to share an update. Thanks for all the advice since my last post.

 On All Saints Day I had to take a field trip to  a middle school in an inter-city area to observe public school teachers. Watching some of these teachers doing their job well made me think that this might be the career for me. I don’t think that this is naive, since one of the teachers I observed had a classroom full of disruptive students, but it turns out that this was his first year teaching. But, seeing the more experienced teachers do their job inspired me. Since then, I think that I might just end up continuing this major, and get a job in this field, even with the all the garbage I’m going to have to put up with. If I become a teacher, I would prefer to get a job in a decent Catholic school rather than a public school for obvious reasons. Please pray for me.

Any further advice would be greatly appreciated.