Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing dependence on outside advisers worries many teachers and administrators. "It used to be that the student applied to colleges," says Hugh Chandler, a high school guidance counselor in Weston, Mass. "Now it's the parents and the outside consultant." Even the most personal part of the application -- the essay -- is putty for professional packagers. This fall < Matthew Tucker, a high school senior from Wilton, Conn., wanted to write about his cross-country cycling trip, but his consultant considered the subject too prosaic. At her suggestion, he switched to juggling, one of his hobbies. "She didn't write my essay...
...addition, the growing use of high-priced private coaches and special prep courses may put less affluent applicants at a disadvantage. "It is certainly unfair to the poor," admits a mother who paid $1,000 for an outside counselor. "But without it, my daughter's chances at Brown and Stanford wouldn't be nearly as good. It was necessary...
...family life -- even in middle-class suburbia -- is not what it used to be. With divorce commonplace, youngsters frequently careen back and forth between parents like shuttlecocks. "We used to send one report card home with each student and deal with one set of parents," recalls Kay Grady, a counselor at Hillview Elementary School in affluent Menlo Park, Calif. "Now we send two to two households and sometimes arrange for separate conferences." That is, if the parents have time. Single parents and two- earner couples are often just too fatigued at the end of the day to show much interest...
...public, though, allows the candidates to enjoy just so many benefits of ordinary life. Going to a psychiatrist or marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, thinks it a "sad commentary" that President Reagan referred to her husband as an "invalid" last August, after baseless rumors circulated that he had once sought counseling. "Everyone who needs help should be able to get it," she says. "It should never become a political decision...
...There has been an enormous increase indiscussion about AIDS in the Harvard community inthe past year," said the Rev. G. Stewart Barnes,another Life Raft counselor. He attributed thechange to AIDS Education and Outreach, whichformed last spring to teach students about thedisease