Guidence counselors are aware of the relationship between IQ tests at the age of 7 and success in life.Hmmm... you know, funny thing, we didn't have a HS guidance counselor at my school. I'm not sure how anyone could determine a kid's future based on a maybe 10-minute conversation with the kid.
Why Guidance Counselors Can Be Dangerous
Using the proven, trusted, and most reliable 80/20 Rule, 80% of all high school guidance counselors are near-to-useless. Most tell parents to simply fill out the forms.www.linkedin.com
Using the proven, trusted, and most reliable 80/20 Rule, 80% of all high school guidance counselors are near-to-useless. Most tell parents to simply fill out the forms. End of story.
Roughly 20% of guidance counselors are good at helping your student get into college based on personal relationships they’ve established with many college admission directors. But this kind of counselor, with increasing numbers of students and responsibilities that have nothing to do with college admissions, is becoming less available, particularly in public schools.
For the most part, these counselors have too much on their plates, with national student-to-counselor ratios averaging 457:1 at public high schools and 241:1 at private high schools. A 500:1 ratio is not unusual.
One of my clients had a son at a parochial school with a strict policy on handling all the paperwork for college. The school was suggesting that their son’s future would be placed in the hands of a guidance counselor who barely knew the student and was managing the paperwork for more than 50 other students. (That’s when you know the red flag of Murphy’s Law is waving triumphantly: if something will go wrong, it will.) I advised the client to tell the school where they could stick their policy (of course, in some round file), and that the parent had her own policy that would allow the school to send out only the transcript and letters of recommendation.
But I'm sure you read something on AmRen about some racist twit who claims to be a guidance counselor and knows how awful black kids are.