"Rewards and Challenges"

I saw a lot of material over the web-sites that discussed the role of a counselor including them being able to get into a classroom and talk to students or focus on improved student results. I feel that there is no way a counselor can first get into a classroom with all of the burdens being placed on them by school administration, and in order to measure some of these student results I really feel they need to be in a classroom more often. I rarely have the opportunity to have a counselor visit my class and talk to my students about anything, but the one or two times that it has happened the students did listen to them, and we actually got no math done after they left because we continued the discussion (on college admission) for about 30 more minutes while the counselor whisked through 3 more classrooms. We either need more counselors or they need less responsibilities so that they can better serve the students on their case-load.