Counselors may lose jobs in schools

“And for some, for the rest of their high school career. Certainly, we refer out, for certain situations. But the large majority of our students stay with us the whole time that they're here.”

Onondaga County's Department of Mental Health is proposing that the counselors be replaced with those working for a not-for-profit agency. via WSYR

[Betsy]

Its time to evaluate whether we need, or want psychologists, and social workers in our school systems.

All they do is cause stigma to be commonplace in our schools. Perhaps that is the reason there is so much violance within our school.

Young children are at a very delicate age, and peer group pressures are high. For psychs to use demeaning "diagnoses" that they themselves barely understand, is ludicrous.

What happened to the school nurse of times past, that we all trusted, and who had so much common sense?? We certainly need the school nurse back, and the meddling psychs out.