Counselors provide emotional and mental health support as students reel from the effects of the pandemic. And advocates say there are far too few of them to meet the growing need among students in Massachusetts:
School counselors traditionally have filled an academic support role: writing letters of recommendations and helping undecided students pick classes. While they still perform such functions, the role of the school counselor has greatly expanded in the years leading up to and since the pandemic.
While better than the national ratio, Massachusetts has a counselor-to-student ratio of one to 364. The state has approximately 2,470 counselors for 911,000 students. To meet the recommended ratio of one counselor to every 250 students, the commonwealth would need a thousand more school counselors. "Most counselors leave at the end of the school day saying, 'I just didn’t get through everything I needed to get through.' And that can be pretty frustrating to know your job is never over," said Bardwell.
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