A US military veteran of Iraq and college student with multiple injuries/disabilities including ptsd requested or has been requesting a change in counselors. One reason is that he must see her every time he will be absent from class for medical treatments including a knee surgery. Apparently the counselor issues the excuse note to professors.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6527
To pile on the college considered him a threat.
Several issues with this including the college world bureaucracy, counselors in general and stigmatizing veterans.
One of the problems the student has been dealing with or wants to change is the procedures for counselors, missing class and vets etc to no avail. When you enroll in some of these colleges the administration and staff leads you to believe they are IBM executive and you work for them. It's quite the opposite-they are actually the student's employee.
Then we have the "counselor". I have found high school and college "counselors" to be some of the most useless people out there in general. These counselors push live to work and not work to live which leaves many without daily survival skills & attitude. And they rarely resolve problems, they might let you vent to them or teacher but resolutions... Some schools use "advisors" with a less over reaching approach which works better. But "counselors"-ick
Last but not least we have the stigmatized vet, again this time Gulf War and Afghanistan veterans. Just because there are issues there it does not mean it will end in violence. I've seen stressed out employees in the work place ready to explode and do throw tantrums and show anger regularly and they are not vets. This is one reason labels are over used. But to gain benefits or administer said benifits(job security) now we are quick to use labels that don't fully apply much of the time.
If he can resolve this without legal action fine but I'm afraid it will but at least he will get compensated for this crap.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6527
To pile on the college considered him a threat.
Several issues with this including the college world bureaucracy, counselors in general and stigmatizing veterans.
One of the problems the student has been dealing with or wants to change is the procedures for counselors, missing class and vets etc to no avail. When you enroll in some of these colleges the administration and staff leads you to believe they are IBM executive and you work for them. It's quite the opposite-they are actually the student's employee.
Then we have the "counselor". I have found high school and college "counselors" to be some of the most useless people out there in general. These counselors push live to work and not work to live which leaves many without daily survival skills & attitude. And they rarely resolve problems, they might let you vent to them or teacher but resolutions... Some schools use "advisors" with a less over reaching approach which works better. But "counselors"-ick
Last but not least we have the stigmatized vet, again this time Gulf War and Afghanistan veterans. Just because there are issues there it does not mean it will end in violence. I've seen stressed out employees in the work place ready to explode and do throw tantrums and show anger regularly and they are not vets. This is one reason labels are over used. But to gain benefits or administer said benifits(job security) now we are quick to use labels that don't fully apply much of the time.
If he can resolve this without legal action fine but I'm afraid it will but at least he will get compensated for this crap.