School Counselor Sued Following Student Suicide

musicprnt
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:35:16 +0000

Mixed thoughts, I thought that legally once a kid turns 18 they have the right to privacy with counseling and such.The other thing is if a kid is suicidal if telling the parents is necessarily the right thing, what if the parents are the cause of the kid being like that, should they necessarily be brought in until the kid has been helped? What if the parents are the cause of the kid wanting to commit suicide, like the parents who put so much pressure on the kid he cracks, and who would see him being like this as weakness? (and yes, folks, there are parents like that)…

Personally, I think in a case like this the counselor should legally be required to let someone higher up know and possibly get others involved,have some kind of process. I understand the parent’s grief, but I don’t know if you can put this one of the counselor, he may have done what he could, and I think this one is more likely to be a problem with the standards that are out there, that having one person as a gatekeeper is kind of dicey.