Rich vs. poor, the importance of high school guidance counselors

There are still a lot of teens in our town using computers at the library because they don’t have computers at home.

Our GC’s stay with the same kids for four years so they know them, but they have kids from every grade so they are doing some seniors every year. When my kids were in school there were, I think, 200 kids per GC. Despite that, I thought they did a fabulous job. They had streamline the system so that much advising happened in small groups. They did several college nights including one just for financial aid, and one just for sports scholarships. They also ran at least one session on the main college night in Spanish. They instituted Naviance pretty much as soon as it was available and put in several years of data so it was useful.