Hi Beverly,
Well it is just possible of course that they do have just grounds for
disliking the particular counsellor who does come into the school. The
comments made to me about her hardly came into the flattering category,
but like I say if a pupil is under duress to attend counselling sessions
then perhaps that is only to be expected. Since I've never met her
myself I've no idea what she is like.
Here, the pupils seem to prefer to either talk to one of the volunteer
Sixth Formers who are given some basic pastoral type training, or to one
of the members of the teaching staff. But I do suspect that things are
different here with most of the pupils being boarders such that the
teaching staff do in effect become their parents.
Kindest,
Suzie.
> I take great pleasure in the way that counselling has been cultivated
within
those schools - perhaps they should be used as a model :-)
Unfortunately, I
can't take any credit as both systems were set up long before my time.
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