Let Teenagers Sleep

Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by xypage on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:55PM (#34781287)

Because a guidance counselor doing a good job is really boring, they ask you where you want to go to school, get you links to those applications, and maybe walk you through the application/point you to a campus resource that'll proofread your essays before you submit them. None of these are particularly note worthy, no one's going to go home and write about that experience, so you don't hear about it. That's what my counselor did, they got me fee waivers too so I didn't have to pay a cent for any of my applications, it's just not something I raced to write about, like I would've if they told me I shouldn't go to college and then I did well or something.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by geoduck14 on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:10PM (#34781491)

I agree. My guidance counselor had 2 3-ring binders FULL of schools that fit some criteria I had, but were also aligned to my disabilities. My mom and I spent ~2 hours with the counselor looking through the schools and applying. It was pretty boring. They also arranged for schools to come and talk to us about them. That was rad because we got to skip class

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by clint on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:53PM (#34782110)

I'm often surprised that so many folks seemed to have "Guidance Counselors" at their schools. I went to a public science and technology magnet school in Kansas during the 90s and I don't think I ever saw a guidance counselor ever.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by oogali on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:12PM (#34783021)

I did freshman and sophomore year at a traditional high school and we had a guidance counselor, who was worthless.

Junior year I transferred to a vo-tech[1] high school where we had no guidance counselor.

I was shocked at the increased level of educational quality and overall large amount of empathy at the second school. It made me realize that "all schools suck" is false, but rather specific ones are terribad.

With regards to hours, my first high school was a 10-minute walk from my home and my earliest class started at 7:40am and my latest class ended at 3:20pm.

My second high school was an almost 3-hour bus ride one way but a 1-hour bus ride in the reverse direction. The difference was due to public bus schedules during peak and off-peak times.

Junior year, my earliest class was 2pm and latest class ended at 7:30pm. Senior year, we moved closer to my school, a 10-minute drive. I had the lightest load of my life: first class was at 10:15am and last class ended at 1:30pm.

Said vo-tech school has been rebranded as a "STEM academy".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational-technical_school

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by astrange on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:35AM (#34787253)

I slept through most of high school because of the long commute, but vaguely remember a counselor coming around with a computerized career recommender at our magnet school, which told me to become a telecom linesmen because I liked computers.

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Re:Let Teenagers Sleep by plorkyeran on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:33PM (#34784914)

Yep, my HS guidance counselor gave me some great advice. I went to a school she strongly recommended for me and it was a good fit for exactly the reasons she said it would be. This isn't a very interesting story so I think this is literally the first time I've ever mentioned it anywhere in the nearly 20 years since then.

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