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Counselers don't do anything , in fact they sit around waiting in their offices most of the day. Everyone can now afford their own mental health counseling , no need to have that at school.

Sports and extra activities should be self pay to weed out the ones who are serious.

Many of the mental health and development issues should be self pay.

The school needs to prioritize teaching and the classroom. If they eliminated evening else or made it self pay there would be less administrators and executives needed to manage these superfluous activities.[/quote]

You seem to be confusing counselors with the school psychiatrists.  At our HS, the counselors spent a lot of time helping students with course selection, working through academic issues with teachers, and assisting with college applications.  We had kids at two FCPS high schools and the counselors there were just great.  They certainly weren't sitting around their offices doing as little as you suggest.

The notion that everything would be perfect if we just hired more teachers and let them do what they do best is fanciful.  Some of the teachers are great, and some suck.  The counselors are often the only ones at the school who recognize that.

Now if we're talking about getting rid of some of the useless APs who virtually never interact with either kids or parents, and mostly just create paperwork for teachers, you might have a point. [/quote]

sounds like mom or dad should be doing that job not the counselors.[/quote]

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