Though the forced mass homeschooling of the pandemic made parents everywhere suddenly appreciate what schoolteachers do, it took me a couple extra years to come to the same conclusion about school guidance counselors.
It turns out those high school guidance counselors really do earn their keep. And if you homeschool your kid all the way through graduation, guess how easy it is to become a de facto guidance counselor?
Not very easy.
From scheduling SAT and AP exams and knowing how colleges feel about them; to keeping up with scholarship opportunities; to knowing application deadlines; to working with the local community college; to explaining your grading scale; to writing intelligent recommendations; to advising on teacher recommendations, extracurricular lists, college entrance essays, and programs of study; to sending updated midyear reports…now I know why high schools employ these guys.
It may have cost me the use of my brain for the following 18 hours, but after weeks of work I finally completed the transcript, counselor recommendation essays, and school reports Jeddy required for his college applications. Now he’s waiting on one teacher recommendation (from someone else), at which point I believe it can all be sent.
Hopefully, just in time for a merry Christmas and relief to all.
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