Regarding Fresno State President John Welty’s commentary Oct. 14: Do 20% of Fresnans-Visalians have a four–year degree because of economics, brain drain or the high schools’ failure to focus on post-high-school, or a mix?
When I recently spoke with my high-schooler’s counselor about the school’s role in college preparation, I received too brief of an answer: “We announce SAT exams and have a parent-info table at back to school night.”
Walking the halls of my children’s high school, you see flyers about dances, free speech, contests, homecoming; but where are flyers about anything post-high-school?
I hear about API/AYP tests/scores, “goals of proficiency,” “preparing for successful lives,” but what about college entrance/preparation?
When I was in high school, with the help of my counselor, college planning began in my sophomore year. High school students I speak to these days say they feel alone in preparing for college and lack guidance from their school.
If my children’s high school has become lost in the forest for the trees, how many others are similarly situated? Do the schools develop students for here and now, for “proficiency,” or do they create a college- or vocational school-bound environment with their population focused on their futures?
If local schools incorporated the latter, would we still be 55 out of 55?
Laura M. Guzman Magill
Fresno
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