Can you please tell me how to.....

January 29, 2009

Tell a guidance counselor to get a brain????!!!! Seriously. I am having the

worst time with 's counselor. She doesn't see anything wrong with giving

this kid 3 study halls! It's his junior year! He needs to be preparing for

getting out of school. Not sitting there doing nothing!

It became a huge problem at the beginning of the year that they weren't offering

the classes he could use for after graduating. (Incidentally, they are offering

them in the fall when he may NOT have room for them if he gets into the

vocational school.) They put him in useless electives which became basically

fill in the blank.

He has had a study hall first part of the year. Now they have switched into the

2nd semester courses if they were taking 1/2 semester classes. I told them that

creative writing would NOT be a good choice for him. They convinced him it would

be, and he became adamant about taking it so he could keep another class.

(Classes are hard to change when you are in supported classes.) SOOOOOOOOOOOOO

this guidance counselor has succeeded in making this child who had speech

services and language for years because he doesn't " expand " his sentences, to

take a class where he has to write something that has to be 500-800 words. This

is a kid that thinks an essay is maybe 2 paragraphs, if you can get that much

out of him.

His other option is a study hall. He is already taking 2 study halls this

semester. So that will make 3 study halls. They have given him a choice of

Marriage and Family as well. Uh, it's not something he'd be interested in

because of his OCD. And it would be hard to keep his interest. He's willing to

take it, but I don't see him wanting to stay in there either, which will then

give us no options.

I am really mad at this guidance counselor because she doesn't see anything

wrong with having 3 study halls! Not a problem at all!!!! She just looks at the

classes available and says, " Okay, how about this one? " Knowing nothing of his

ability or likes or dislikes. So it's okay to just stick him anywhere.

I don't know who to even go to to get this resolved. There is a head of

guidance, but I don't know if she would even be a good choice because I've known

this woman since I was in her 7th-grade math class. So, I'm just up in arms over

the thought of giving this child a 3rd study hall. If I could get him a job, I'd

get him an early release, but so far, that hasn't panned out-though we've tried.

Any suggestions.

Melinda

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