Did you go Public With Your Private Counselor?

beth_s_mom
Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:44:14 +0000

We will not be using a private counselor, in part because we have friends who have used them and in each case it was a disaster, but mostly because with the schools junior D is interested in (large publics), we simply don’t need one.

The people I know who used a private counselor did NOT tell the GC. There are some GC’s at D’s HS (a suburban public with classes of 500 or so) who get prickly about it, although I don’t think D’s GC does. I’ve never met with her GC, and she’s only met with him once a year in a large group and once a year for the 5 minutes it took him to enter her classes for the following year into the computer. D is shy and it’s not in her nature to seek out her GC, so I’m sure he’ll never know her. I believe the GCs write recommendations based on info the parents give them.