Sentences with phrase «guidance counselor telling»

I remember my art teacher and guidance counselor telling my not to put all my eggs in one basket.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Juanita Perez Williams was in 11th grade, she recalls a guidance counselor telling her she wasn't cut out for college.

I was pretty stunned to hear tales like, «My guidance counselor told me not to apply to NYU because I probably wouldn't get in.

Despite graduating in the top of his class, his high school guidance counselor told him that the local city college was his only realistic option.

Growing up outside Chicago, Julio César Contreras, whose immigrant parents did not graduate from high school and whose father speaks little English to this day, once had a guidance counselor tell him not to go to college because of his grades.

When Eleanor Baum was in high school in the 1950s, guidance counselors told her that women couldn't grow up to be engineers.

Cooper Union Engineering School When Eleanor Baum was in high school in the 1950s, guidance counselors told her that women couldn't grow up to be engineers.

Remember back in high school when your teachers or guidance counselors told you to «do what you love and the money will follow?»

Not exact matches

I think when I tell them stuff it's different from hearing it from a teacher or a guidance counselor — it's a different comfort level.»

«They thought it was important to be at school the next day, to mourn those who had been lost and to show that terror would not stop us, would not change us,» the mayor told reporters outside Stuyvesant Thursday morning after he and Fariña met with students, teachers, guidance counselors and administrators.

Dromm told Gay City that one of the real problems in the public schools is «abusive» security agents, and he said if the Council can afford $ 20 million for private schools they should appropriate an equal amount for «restorative disciplinary practices» for such security personnel in the public schools as well as for many more guidance counselors.

I was told by guidance counselors I shouldn't go to college.»

In the search process anyone you ask for guidance, from your academic adviser to counselors at your institution's career resources department, will tell you, «Get out there and network.»

So most people who want to become doctors are told by the guidance counselors at the age 16 to choose three sciences, that this maximizes your chances and most medical schools in Britain will insist at least on biology and chemistry as two of those A-levels.

As part of conflict management techniques, guidance counselors role - play an actual incident, only Meyer tells them to give it a «fairy - tale» ending.

When a guidance counselor asked her why she did nt want to complete the assignment ~ she essentially told him she thought the prompt was below her academic ability.

Ultimately, at the end of the school year, Kerr confided in a guidance counselor, who told him it was not okay for his teacher to bully him.

I talked to guidance counselors and said, «The kids are telling me adults are key.»

School resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety issues.

At that time (the mid-1950s) students never learned their SAT scores; the guidance counselor knew, but she wasn't allowed to tell.

When told Sunshine reports sending many students to adult education, Gagne, the former Olympia guidance counselor, said she was surprised.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

Hiring more psychologists and guidance counselors would help school officials identify students with mental health challenges sooner and deter serious violence, professionals in those fields told legislators Monday.

Black and Latino students, on the other hand, have often never heard about the exam or have been told by their middle school guidance counselors that specialized high schools «[aren't] for our kids» (Santos).

However, in reality most middle schools in low - income Black and Latino neighborhoods have insufficient numbers of guidance counselors who are neither explicitly trained to handle or told to prioritize high school choice process advising (Perez 12).

As she usually does, Picoult tells the story in voices: in this case, Zoe, who has spent ten years trying to have a baby; Max, her husband, who has finally had enough, divorces her and finds God; and Vanessa, a guidance counselor who becomes Zoe's friend and eventually, her lover.

Growing up I was told by my parents, teachers, and guidance counselors to go to college because it would give me a better life.

My guidance counselor sucks because they told me being a video game maker is not really a job.

Actress Lea Michele, who plays the club's head diva, Rachel, filmed an anti-fur PSA for PETA (without stripping down), while Jayma Mays, who plays the vintage - styled guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, told Mother Nature Network that her favorite accessory is a purse made from soda can tabs and recycled thread.

«Please tell David, Emma (Gonzalez), and any other of your student leaders, that they are welcome at the William Conroy Honors College and at New Mexico State University,» reads the letter which was emailed to the school principal Ty Thompson, guidance director Terrence Sullivan and guidance counselor Jerry Turmaine.

The consequences of false allegations can be devastating if our children, master manipulators, manage to convince a guidance counselor, therapist, or police officer they're telling the truth.