| Mt. Healthy City School District |
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2411 - GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
The Board of Education requires that a planned program of guidance and counseling be an integral part of the educational program of the schools. Such a program must be found in the District Comprehensive Guidance Plan and should:
| A. | assist students in achieving their optimum growth; | |
| B. | enable students to obtain maximum benefit from the offerings of the instructional program of the schools; | |
| C. | aid students in identifying options and making choices in vocational and academic planning; | |
| D. | help integrate all the student's experience so that s/he can better relate school activity to life outside the school; | |
| E. | help students learn to make their own decisions and solve problems independently. |
The program of guidance and counseling is defined as helping individuals understand themselves in the light of their abilities, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, strengths, and limitations. This process should assist students in the development of their potential, their decisions relating to personal, educational, and vocational matters and also in becoming capable of mature self-guidance.
The program of guidance and counseling is based upon these broad fundamental principles:
| A. | Individuals are different from one another in their capabilities, aptitudes, interests, needs, goals, desires, and values. | |
| B. | Conditions are improvable. Equality of educational opportunity will benefit the individual and society. | |
| C. | Guidance is a continual and developmental process. Every experience of the individual influences his/her performance in some way. | |
| D. | Guidance does not propose to program an individual's course of action but rather tries to assist the individual in arriving at his/her own satisfactory solutions. | |
| E. | Guidance should assist the individual to understand his/her circumstances and opportunities and to plan his/her life in a satisfactory manner to serve himself/herself as well as society. |
A program of guidance and/or counseling shall be offered to all students and shall include the services of professional guidance personnel and other designated faculty and staff members and appropriate members of the community;
The Superintendent is directed to implement the adopted counseling and guidance program.
R.C. 2151.421, 2317.02 (G)
A.C. 3301-35-03