It was a guidance counselor who stepped up and made sure I didn't have to take the same class over again when I switched school systems. She also listened to me gripe about the school and tried to change things so that new students got more useful info coming in. :thumbup:Lasolimu wrote:This might just be a difference here in the States again. I know in my school the only time I saw the counselor was when they were making sure we were on track to graduate which was only just before signing up for classes.
The other counselor I remember was more of a "by the book" type, but when I demanded more than the standard he was willing to do it. I did all my college submissions myself, however; always viewed the counselors as more of an information resource than anything else so don't really know if they did submissions and whatnot.
A friend of mine who was dealing with a sexually abusive dad has a much less rosy picture to paint, however I think in that case the counselors just passed her off to an incompetent social worker -- never really occurred to me that guidance counselors were useful for problems outside of school issues, except maybe to connect you to someone more knowledgeable. Maybe that was just how my school system worked.