2411 - GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

The Board of Education requires that a planned program of guidance and counseling be an integral part of the educational program of the schools. Such a program must be found in the District Comprehensive Guidance Plan and may:

1. assist students in achieving their optimum growth;
2. enable students to obtain maximum benefit from the offerings of the instructional program of the schools;
3. aid students in identifying options and making choices in vocational and academic planning;
4. help integrate all the student's experience so that s/he can better relate school activity to life outside the school;
5. help students learn to make their own decisions and solve problems independently.

A program of guidance and/or counseling shall be offered to all students and shall include the services of professional guidance personnel and other designated faculty and staff members and appropriate members of the community;

The Superintendent is directed to implement the adopted counseling and guidance program which carries out these purposes and:

1. involves appropriate staff members at every level;
2. honors the individuality of each student;
3. is integrated with the total educational program;
4. is coordinated with available resources of the community;
5. provides means for such sharing of information among such appropriate staff members as may be in the best interests of the student;
6. is available equally to all students;
7. establishes a referral system which utilizes all the aid the schools and community offer, guards the privacy of the student, and monitors the effectiveness of such referrals.