Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 21:50     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:It is counseling week. Do you know your student's ES, MS, HS counselor? Do you trust them to ask questions, seek feedback? What are things you like about your kid's school counselor, do not like? Have heard nice stories about some, others have said counselor was gossipy so never contacted them and you have those that never interacted with their child's school counselor to know.


My three had the full gamut from horrible to life-changing.

When we adopted DS, he was a ninth grader. His counselor at Blair really walked the talk about trauma.

Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 21:46     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Never communicated with my DS HS counselor. The MS counselor for my other son - not impressed. She was not knowledgeable when I asked her a question and was not friendly when I met her in person.


They write student's college recommendation too using a brag sheet parents complete. Aside from that, it appears they are there to get information to be loquious rather than actually trying to answer students' questions even if questions are "simple." What exctly are they trained on or have a degree for?


My child’s counselor is a licensed therapist. I think counselor training involves a significant amount of clinical mental health training, although, I don’t know that MCPS is using counselors in this way.


Because they are overloaded with other responsibilities.


Someone up thread mentioned schedulers. Can't they hire "registrars" or schedulers for class scheduling to free up counselors' duties? It may be easier to find schedulers.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 21:21     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Never communicated with my DS HS counselor. The MS counselor for my other son - not impressed. She was not knowledgeable when I asked her a question and was not friendly when I met her in person.


They write student's college recommendation too using a brag sheet parents complete. Aside from that, it appears they are there to get information to be loquious rather than actually trying to answer students' questions even if questions are "simple." What exctly are they trained on or have a degree for?


My child’s counselor is a licensed therapist. I think counselor training involves a significant amount of clinical mental health training, although, I don’t know that MCPS is using counselors in this way.


Because they are overloaded with other responsibilities.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 17:55     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Never communicated with my DS HS counselor. The MS counselor for my other son - not impressed. She was not knowledgeable when I asked her a question and was not friendly when I met her in person.


They write student's college recommendation too using a brag sheet parents complete. Aside from that, it appears they are there to get information to be loquious rather than actually trying to answer students' questions even if questions are "simple." What exctly are they trained on or have a degree for?


My child’s counselor is a licensed therapist. I think counselor training involves a significant amount of clinical mental health training, although, I don’t know that MCPS is using counselors in this way.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:45     Subject: Counseling week
Counselor is a misnomer. They should be called schedulers.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:41     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:Counselors have also told students or the parents that they don't know about X subject. It should have been a straightforward question for a counselor to answer.

Is there a shortage of school counselors?


There are 11 counselor positions posted on MCPS's site. Some have been open since August.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:36     Subject: Counseling week
Counselors have also told students or the parents that they don't know about X subject. It should have been a straightforward question for a counselor to answer.

Is there a shortage of school counselors?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:09     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:Never communicated with my DS HS counselor. The MS counselor for my other son - not impressed. She was not knowledgeable when I asked her a question and was not friendly when I met her in person.


They write student's college recommendation too using a brag sheet parents complete. Aside from that, it appears they are there to get information to be loquious rather than actually trying to answer students' questions even if questions are "simple." What exctly are they trained on or have a degree for?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:04     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How is the job pipeline - about how many graduate with this degree?


Would you want to after watching the video of the fight at Whitman?


What?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 22:02     Subject: Counseling week
Anonymous wrote:How is the job pipeline - about how many graduate with this degree?


Would you want to after watching the video of the fight at Whitman?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 21:40     Subject: Counseling week
How is the job pipeline - about how many graduate with this degree?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 21:35     Subject: Counseling week
High school counselors are stretched way too thin. A lot have 300+ students, manage 50+ 504s, literally save kids’ lives, have endless responsibilities with regard to scheduling, academic and emotional support, college app prep, crisis intervention, etc, and their work is never enough.