Perceived Roles

Based on my interface with our school guidance counselors to date, I would say that the main role and primary responsibility is individual student academic planning.
They seem to be in a constant balancing act with each student to lay out a schedule each semester that works and fine tune it when it derails.
A large portion of what I thought guidance counselors did appears to have been given to the homeroom teacher. In my school, one period per week, all homeroom teachers do advisement with their homerooms on subjects like bullying, ethics, college preparation, and standardized testing. I will be interested to read and review actual roles.