My interactions with our school counselor is a definite given due to nature and climate of our school especially when it comes to conflict and bullying. The reason I say this because whenever there's a conflict between two students and us teachers know about it and do not take action by reporting it to her she will immediately ask via email why and our administrators will know about it. Also, we have to answer to them about why. Even if we aren't aware of the conflict the students can and will create a falsehood to make us teachers seem as if we're being neglectful.
And based on my experience with this situation I make sure that any conflicts I witnessed she's notified via email as soon as possible. Also, the two conflicting parties (the students) are sent to our Responsible Thinking Classroom. Then a situation report is filled out by me and I make two copies. I give my counselor the master copy and I keep the other copy for my records.
With the help of my team I was able to direct the parent to counseling services provided by my counselors. That's it! We are not allowed to give any personal advice because we're not counselors.
Thank you for your candor.
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