As juniors and seniors begin their search for the ideal college, many of them will reach out to their guidance counselor for advice and assistance throughout the process. Because guidance counselors play such a large roll in the college hunt, teachers and parents are constantly stressing the importance of students building a good relationship with their counselor. However, it is not easy to do this when one?s counselor has been different every year in his or her high school career.
Juniors and seniors with last names between Sao and Z in particular have had a new counselor for each of the past three years. Personally, this has not allowed me to establish a solid relationship with a counselor.
The school owes it to the students to hire counselors who can fully commit to their jobs to ultimately remain with a group of students throughout high school to help them get in to college. This is what they should sign up for when they accept the position, and when they do not remain with a group of students, it seems that they may not be performing their job to the best of their ability.
Because students have to rely heavily on their counselor to help them find an ideal school and get into the school, something needs to be done for the students? sake to insure that their counselor will remain consistent throughout their high school career.
A possible solution for this is to give counselors long-term contracts when they are hired. Doing so would fortify their commitment to the students and the school and reduce the amount of fluctuation in counselors that students face.