Today our Work Study Word journalism class paid a visit to McLean’s Student Services department, a part of the main building where kids can speak with counselors about school issues, personal issues, or both at the same time. And then we wrote about what we saw and heard and learned.
We were invited by school counselor Kathleen Otal, who spoke with us recently in our journalism lab. After talking some more with Ms. Otal (and petting her stuffed associates Theo the dog and Sandy the dolphin), we also enjoyed office visits with counselors Greg Olcott, pictured here fielding student questions, and Brook Dalrymple.
“When you don’t know how to ask for help,” Mrs. Dalrymple told us, “I like helping you guys have a voice.”
Conducting the interviews were students Abby Criswell, Michael Shank, Jacob Devore, John Suringa, Trevor Sheehan, Ben Shue and Sidney Wu. We want to thank all the counselors we interviewed, and all the ones we didn’t, for their hard work helping us day after day.
THE WORK STUDY WORD 