National School Counseling Week

Honoring those that counsel our students’ academic life and future

This week is National School Counseling Week. The American School Counselor Association website explains that this week “highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.”

School Counselors are truly the most amazing people. The work they do is so broad and all-consuming. From elementary years, through middle school, and throughout high school, our School Counselors often will know their student’s needs as well as anyone. They are educators, counselors, students’-advocate, “in-school parent”, and much more.

Most cannot realize the vast amount of time they work on behalf of their students. There are never enough hours in the day for them to care for their students. Like so many educators they work late into the evenings nearly every workday, are at school early the next day, work over the weekends, come in weeks before the school year begins, and working weeks after the school year ends. Much of that well over their salaried day.

During these challenging COVID times, School Counselors have been the front line of supporting the academic planning and schedules to meet our students’ many individual needs and situations.

As much as I thought I did, I do not think my wife and I fully appreciated my own student’s School Counselors until their senior year of high school. During the months ahead of graduation School Counselors are ensuring students are on track to graduation, finding alternative graduation options for some, helping students with college or career planning, helping with applications, verifying and re-verifying, sending out reports, letters, and transcripts.

Crystal River High School Trudee Mason, School Guidance Counselor

I have had the honor of working with many School Counselors in different student situations. They are the most caring and compassionate and knowledgeable persons.

I want to take a moment to personally thank our daughter’s Guidance Counselor Ms. Trudee Mason who is nothing less than extraordinary. She intentionally makes it apparent that she is a partner in our children’s academic life.  We are so grateful to her!

We honor and thank you Ms. Mason and all the School Counselors in Citrus County Schools and beyond.

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