High School Guidance Counselors Are Becoming Few and Far Between

Counseling of high schools studetns is become more specialized.  More and more, we are hearing that schools are changing the ground work for their high school counselors.  One counselor wrote "As a counselor,  I deal with students facing many challenges including but not limited to depression, truancy, drug abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness, school failure meanwhile I have to also provide student academic guidance. My workload in the past few years has more than doubled due to the economic crisis and the school board announced recently that it might very soon be eliminated".

Like physicans,  schools are now looking at counselors as a specialty,  where there is no longer a counselor who will handle all issues.  Some with deal with those students who suffer with drug, sexual, physical, or mental abuse, homelessness, school failure etc. as a new category, followed by school counselors, and then others will over see the guidance and/or college counseling.

Guidance counselors jobs are in jeapordy because many counselors are being replaced by college consultants who can spend more time with a student and who do not cost the district one penny.

Students need to be more pro active and learn what is needed in their education for them to succeed.  College Admissions Consultant is one way for families to keep their students on track.

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