Your school counselors are here to help. If your counselor is unable to see you when you come in the office, see the counseling secretary who will schedule a time for you to come back. Parents/guardians may want to talk with teachers and/or counselors about grades, adjustment problems, course requirements, or other things. Parents/guardians may elect in writing to have their child not participate (to “opt-out” of) academic, career, or personal/social counseling of a generic nature at any time.
Counselors are available to help students:
Problem solve. Sometimes just talking to someone helps make situations clearer.
Discuss feelings and needs: This helps ensure students’ decisions are based on their values.
Explore options: Every problem has more than one solution.
Reach decisions: Students can learn skills for making future decisions on their own!
Plan for post high school.
Counselors use the following to implement the school counseling program:
Individual and small group counseling
Consultation with parent/guardian teachers, and other educators
Peer mediation of conflict management
Classroom counseling lessons
Referrals to other services both in and out of school
The Learning Lounge is available to students in grades 6-12 to study, complete school work, and seek academic assistance from a peer tutor or a teacher.
After school Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:15 PM until 4:15 PM. Catch the late bus home. No LL on early release days.
Held most Saturdays from 9 AM until 12 PM. No LL on holiday weekends.
The Learning Lounge is held in the MHS Library
Students, teachers and parents can assign a student to the Learning Lounge:
Use this Google Form to sign up.
The Learning Lounge staff will specifically look for students that are referred by a teacher. If a student that was referred by a teacher does not attend, we will contact the parent, and the referring teacher if necessary.
FCCPS students have free access to a wonderful educational tool called Brainfuse. Brainfuse is an online tutoring platform that can be accessed at school, home, library or anywhere there is wifi. Brainfuse has live tutoring support and asynchronous tutoring support through its message center. Please check out this tutorial for more information about how to access Brainfuse and all of the features it offers.