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Paramount Unified counselors say new scheduling shifts force them to teach and cut counseling time
Summary
Multiple elementary and middle school counselors told the Paramount Unified board that a staffing directive requiring counselors to cover teacher planning time is reducing access to counseling, limiting crisis response and creating what speakers called a “second full‑time job.”
Multiple counselors told the Paramount Unified School District Board of Education on Nov. 13 that a new staffing model is pulling them out of core counseling duties to cover teacher planning time, leaving students with fewer supports and hampering crisis response.
“This year I have only two [days] to fulfill counseling duties,” said Danielle Kett Sledger, identified in the record as a counselor at Collins Elementary School. “The other three days comprise what I can only describe as a second full‑time job.” She said counselors were not given substitutes, that she was required to teach 44 forty‑five‑minute lessons per month and that the change has forced her to discipline students while teaching…
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