FHS Gives Guiding Light to First-Year
Students
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In a new initiative, the Freeport High School Guidance Department is assigning
guidance counselors to follow first-year students throughout their high school
careers.
New FHS Principal, Kimberlee Pierre, told the parents
and students attending freshman orientation that the counselors would thereby
increase their involvement with individual students and be able to counsel
them more effectively each grade along the way.
Counselors Lisa Dais, who has been working in the district
for nine years, and Nichols Angelo, who has been in the district for four years,
are each serving roughly half the number of students in the grade. Also assisting
with first-year student counseling is a third FHS guidance counselor, Emma
Perdomo.
"Students at each level have specific
concerns that differ," said Dais. "By staying
with the students throughout their career we'll be able
to understand them and guide them much more responsively and effectively."
There are more than 550 students in the first year class
at the high school.
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