Blogger # 2

Moving from the very sad topics to these new topics is almost a breath of fresh air. Almost. We go from talking about kids shooting schools to middle schoolers getting pregnant, having babies, and getting drunk.

Seeing the statistics for the age of kids that are having sex, experimenting with drugs, and having babies is unbelievable. some of the stats are shocking, while some are just the way i would think they would be. I cant even begin to think about kids having sex in middle school. 11, 12, 13 year olds having sex? No thanks. My little brother has told me stories of how he knows of people when he was in middle school having sex in the bathroom, during school. First the sex part threw me off. Then in the bathroom, at school? Then it went WAY overboard. By middle school, most people know what sex is, the effects, and most basic information. But actually doing it is not something I would think of in middle school. I know jwhen I was in middle school, it was still pretty uncommon to even have girlfriends. Not that that stopped anyone from having one, but still.

As for the counselor's panel, i thought they brought up some very good insights. When I was in high school, our counselors were more of people that just set our schedules and that was it. it seemed like they were more into the administrative part of the counseling job, then the actual student interaction part. Also, when fights broke out we didnt go to counselors or the principals. We talked to other students. We had somethign call Conflict Management. Conflict managers were actual students at the school. They would talk with the students involved in the fight and get their side of the story. More often then not, they would solve the problems and the principals or counselors would not even have to get involved. The reason they used students is because they said that students after fighting are more liekly to open up and talk to other students then the counselors themselves. This makes sense, but again, it just seems like a cop out for the counselors. To me, counselors at my school did next to nothing but set the students' schedules.