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Council member inquires about counselors in students' schools
9:18:29
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Council Member Rita Joseph engages in a Q&A session with several students, asking about their schools and the number of counselors available. The students provide information about their respective schools, revealing varying ratios of counselors to students.
- Students report having between one to four counselors in their schools
- Student-to-counselor ratios range from 160:1 to over 400:1
- One school with 1,400 students has one counselor per grade plus two college counselors
Rita Joseph
9:18:29
Trinity, are you enrolled in a community school?
9:18:32
Miss Young.
Trinity W.
9:18:35
I'm in a public school for Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School.
Rita Joseph
9:18:39
But it's not community.
9:18:40
Right?
9:18:41
Is it a community school?
9:18:42
It's community support?
UNKNOWN
9:18:43
It's a public
Rita Joseph
9:18:45
How many how many counselors
Lawrence R.
9:18:46
It a community school.
9:18:48
Sorry.
Rita Joseph
9:18:48
It's okay.
9:18:50
How many counselors do you have?
Trinity W.
9:18:52
My school, I have one guidance counselor.
Rita Joseph
9:18:56
One?
9:18:58
How many students?
Trinity W.
9:19:00
About one sixty.
Rita Joseph
9:19:03
Thank you.
9:19:04
How many counselors are at your schools?
Sebastian
9:19:08
I guess I'll start off.
9:19:09
There's three guidance counselors in my school with about 350 students that are there.
Rita Joseph
9:19:14
Okay.
9:19:16
Oh, yeah.
9:19:17
Was gonna say so.
9:19:17
Yeah.
Jaylene F.
9:19:18
I have two or three counselors in my school.
Darialis E.
9:19:27
I have a total of 1,400 students that attend my high school and I have one counselor per grade with an additional two college counselors.
Eva
9:19:38
At my high school we had one mental health counselor and one college counselor with 500 students.
9:19:45
And at the school that I'm currently going to, I'm unsure of the amount of students that we have but I know that we have one we have like around four counselors and it depends on which class you're in, depending on what counselor you'll get.
9:20:02
And there's like three levels to my school and each floor has like 10 to 12 classes with a normal amount
Kleber Palma
9:20:11
of students.
Rita Joseph
9:20:11
It's a d79 program, right?
9:20:15
Co op tech on 96?
Eva
9:20:17
Yeah.
Rita Joseph
9:20:17
Yeah.
9:20:19
Okay.
9:20:20
Thank you.
9:20:21
Thank you all.