How sad is that!  Cut the budgets and cut the counselors!  My cousin is a guidance counselor and she went from Full time to part time.  The school now has 2 part time counselor's working there.  That is it and it's a school that has K through 12th grade.

I guess we need to train more school counselors or make the job more attractive in terms of compensation.

I agree. I think that with all the school shootings happening left and right, school counselors would be able to help that situation. Not only that, it's been found that students in states where there are more aggressive counseling policies have the highest test score gains.

Interestingly, Arizona had one of the highest shortage: 1 counselor for every 743 students! This is where Jared Lee Loughner was from, the one who killed 6 people and wounded another 14 in a shooting spree.

It is very sad to this. Counselor is important for school students. They need to make more counselor for providing best counseling to the school students.