<p>Stories like this, frankly, just leave me jaded about the whole K-12 system. My guidance counselor wasn’t worth squat - a fairly nice guy, but my family life was going to heck and it would’ve been nice if he’d actually cared. I still got a partial scholarship to a top 25 university but that was with no thanks whatsoever to the stupid high school.</p>
<p>The lesson here is to take charge of your own future and not trust the school system, period. As a few other people have noted, your interests and the school’s/counselor’s interests are not necessarily aligned. Still, success is the best revenge, all the more so given that education today is a fallback career for people incapable of earning a living in the real world! ;)</p>