"Perceived Roles"

My "personal" impression of what the roles and responsibilities of guidance counselors are, is to guide the students down a career path of their choice. To help them understand whether or not that choice is sufficient base on their performance in school. Guidance counselors are responsible for helping the students select classes that will be beneficial to their career path. They are to counsel students when they are not doing well in their classes, and remind them of the choices they made, along with the importance of their GPA. Guidance counselors are to make arrangements for college, the US military, or technical school what ever the need be based on the child. I think guidance counselors are educated parents that are there to help children that have been placed in their care according to an alphabet, and hopefully they care enough to do their jobs.