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I am so tired of hearing about overinvolved parents. Hate to break it to you, but if parents paying a fortune to a private school caring about where their children will go to college (that they are also paying for) makes them overinvolved, then what does that make all of the moms on this site, some of whom post multiple times a day commenting, asking, complaining, snarking, etc. about thie child's school? Why bother having kids then? I don't know what generation the PP is from, but I know that my generation was raised for the most part with involved parents. These schools all cost a fortune, and the parents are the ones who work hard to pay for the tuition that pays these counselors' salaries. Most of the top schools around here tout all of the colleges their graduates get into as a way to promote the school and increase applicants. Which means the college counselors they hire should know what they are doing and advise kids from a place of knowledge and experience. This is the guidance counselor's job, and they had to expect if they work at one of these privates that job security comes with results befitting the tuition they are charging.[/quote]

The following comes directly from the Sidwell College Counseling page, and is their statement of philosophy:
[quote]A key element in a student-centered approach to the college process is[b] the clear expectation that the student will take control. We strive to enable students to develop a fuller sense of autonomy and responsibility[/b]. As such, our job is to guide, counsel, probe, refer, suggest and inform. [b]The student is the one ultimately responsible for the key decisions in driving this process forward[/b]. Students must also be responsible for signing up for the appropriate standardized tests and meeting application deadlines.[/quote]

No wonder there is so much dissatisfaction. What Sidwell clearly states it's going to do, intentionally, is at direct odds with what some parents want it to do.[/quote]

Uh-huh. And the queen bee at Sidwell who touted this philosophy got fired last year, not in small part because everyone resented her anti-parent attitude. They get the parents involved when they want money or want the parents to make their kids fall in line. All that passage is really is a disclaimer that if the kid misses an application deadline or doesn't sign up for the SAT when they are supposed to, then it's not the kids fault.
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