Vice-Principals And Guidance Counselors:These Were ACTUAL Job Titles, Right?

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00:00Vice principals and guidance counselors. These were actual job titles, right?

00:05The daily high school ritual started and ended with a cast of familiar characters.

00:10There was Fred, the perpetually exasperated bus driver.

00:14Agnes, the hall monitor, kept us at bay until the official bell rang.

00:18Of course, all of our teachers were in their assigned classrooms,

00:22not finishing a final smoke and coffee in the teacher's lounge or anything.

00:26A few of us even caught an occasional glimpse of Mr. Johnson,

00:30the principal and founder of the educational feast.

00:34As the day ground on, however, two upper management cast members stood out the most,

00:39the vice principal and the guidance counselor. If the principal was responsible for the teacher's

00:44well-being and the parents' defanging, the vice principal's main charge was student law

00:49enforcement. This was the original thankless job. He wasn't a heartbeat away from becoming

00:55principal. He was thousands of detentions away from earning his pension. The guidance counselor

01:01was the other authority figure with whom we formed an uneasy alliance. His job description

01:07sounded straightforward on paper, but in reality, the guidance counselor had to be all things to

01:12all people, part psychologist, part sorting hat, and every student club's faculty sponsor.

01:19Heavy was the head that could access every SAT score.