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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No, you don't need to meet with your child's counselor about course selection.  Your child knows what they want to take, and you just need to sign off.[/b]  The counselor doesn't have time to meet with 150+ parents/students

I say this as a parent of 2 mcps graduates and a 3rd currently in HS. Unless your child has some special needs (amd maybe a resource class), your involvement is just a signature[/quote]

This is not true. Most kids at this age don't know themselves, their interests, their strengths and weaknesses well enough to know what they want or what they should take to optimize for their best future outcome.

They would GREATLY benefit from having an in-depth conversation with their parent and counselor to explore these things. That's what private school counselors do for their kids, which is why they get better outcomes and more intimate and detailed recommendation letters.

The issue is, as you pointed out, that the student-to-counselor ratio simply does not allow for that. [b]So MCPS lets the kids choose their own adventure and then signs them up for whatever they say they want.[/b] This is not what is IDEAL for the student and parent, but it is what the system is set up to do with the current student-to-counselor ratios.[/quote]

Parents sign off on it so please do not try and make this a "MCPS lets them do what they want" COME ON!!!!
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