The district has hired extra counselors.
Within North Carolina at least, the universities have arrangements to send each other extra counselors in times of crisis.
The killing of the two youths -- Andre Wallace and Natasha Marsh, both 17 -- led today to additional counselors and extra security measures, including searches, at Woodrow Wilson High, in an affluent area of Northwest Washington, where the two were seniors.
"If I need an extra guidance counselor, it can take as long as three weeks to make it happen instead of 15 minutes," said a veteran elementary school principal from Washington Heights.
The school also brought in ten extra career counselors; offered field trips to New York, Boston and Miami so students could meet people; and shortened its winter break from six weeks to five, with the additional week given over to further interview practice.
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There was also extra security, grief counselors, and an assembly for parents — the old school is still a crime scene, their children still have nightmares, and they are so much luckier than the parents of the twenty children whose backpacks were not sent along to the new school, and will never outgrow the coats that they left there.
Combined with other resources from the class, the extra time gave counselors the opportunity to answer individual questions with student-centered, specific answers, making students more focused and competitive in the college application process.
One counselor's extra duties were reduced when the principal saw the impact the training had on the counselor's ability to work with students.
