Finding your career path can be daunting. Counselors, when given the proper resources, can be the lifeline to help give the guidance needed. Pasadena Unified School District has proposed changes to potentially decrease the amount of counselors, which would negatively impact my child and other children in PUSD. What about the children who grew up like me, without a parent to know how to guide them to a career? My school counselor helped give me a roadmap to potential careers and I want the same for my child. As a PUSD high school parent and teacher, I have seen the hours and dedication counselors put in with the few resources they have. When I asked my 8th grade daughter at the time about her career ambitions, she stated that she didn’t know and expected the counselor at her high school to give her career planning. I laughed and told her that was not reality and that is depressing. Counselors do not have the time to career plan, not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t have the time. What we need are more counselors, not less.
Stephanie Cosey