Sell me on/dissuade me from the Education program

My son just finished freshman year at UCONN as a linguistics major and I love the school and he does too. My daughter is looking at schools as a rising HS senior education major. She wants to get into the classroom as soon as possible, but it looks like it is a Junior admit to the program. Can you take education classes/observe in classrooms while taking gen ed? We’re from OOS, and she doesn’t know where she wants to land, but she mostly likely won’t return to CA as it’s not sustainable in our area to be a teacher (not that it’s high paying anywhere),