Perceived Roles

High School Guidance Counselor...A couple of years ago when I was in high school.  I thought that Counselor was there to help me with my huge live problems(teenage Timothy). I thought their was a chair in which i could lay down and say, "Back when I was five," type deal. However I soon realized that they have a somewhat different purpose.  To either assign students to College Prep or Technical Prep. I now know from being a Teacher that the Guidance Counselor does more than simply put students into classes. They also print out transcripts, tell students about scholarship's other than HOPE, and somehow make sure that students are on track to graduate. Other than this I wait too see what the research will show me.