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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Percieved Roles
The guidance counselor is a very important of our team at the school. They have to start a few days earlier in the school year than the teachers, so that they can start getting student schedules started and getting our classes filled. They are responsible for talking to students to find out what kind of career that they are interested in pursuing, and helping them to find the best path to that career. They are deeply involved in testing for end of pathways, SAT, ACT and other college entry tests.They help students with the college application process, and they arrange tours. They sometimes also work with us to move students out of our class if it turns out not to be the correct fit for them. Occasionally they will assist us with discipline issues. I am sure there are more things that I have not thought about, but that's all I have.
Steve, that's exactly what they do. But as of yesterday I had a great example of what they deal with behind the scenes. i had a student reading a letter in class from his girlfriend so i asked for it. I was joking when i said is it a love letter? He said that it was half and half. I said "huh"? He said it's that and a suicide letter. I thought he was lying till I read the letter. They apparently were fighting and she wrote him a letter. it went from i love you to I'd rather just be dead. I knew i had to keep the letter. I called the counselor and he came down, read the letter, and said he would handle it through protocal. Thank God for the counselors because I sure didn;t want to deal with that!
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