Just because someone is a priest, doesn't make him useless, especially as a guidance counselor. Guidance counselors have the job of helping students decide on what to do after high school, and being a priest doesn't preclude that capability. Hell, he might even have some wisdom to impart. I taught for many years, and our guidance counselor was a minister. We agnostics are surrounded by people of many faiths. We cannot assume they have no wisdom to impart.

Just because someone is a priest, doesn't make him useless, especially as a guidance counselor. Guidance counselors have the job of helping students decide on what tom do after high school, and being a priest doesn't preclude that capability. Hell, he might even have some wisdom to impart. I taught for many years, and our guidance counselor was a minister. We agnostics are surrounded by people of many faiths. We cannot assume they have no wisdom to impart.

Did the Altar Boy requirement for Catholic boys back in the 60's.

I find this amazing. I never would have thought it would be legal to have a member of the clergy filling the job of guidance counselor. At my high school, there was a chemistry teacher who had a "moment of silence" at the start of class, and I think he was some kind of minister. But that's pretty tame compared to a guidance counselor. Crazy!

Our counselor was a deacon at the church of christ as well as a pacifist, he wasn't to thrilled when I told him I was joining the Army. He said something like "Let god take care of the problems of the world." I think I replied "Pray all you want, some people only understand an ass kicking.". And off to the principal's office I went.

Everybody in the small town in which I was raised was some brand of Christian. Mixing denomination was unheard of. My mom considered it a personal victory when we got a new member to join the church. Heaven knows they could have converted to Catholicism...lol

No, but I had friends in college who were gay and had Mormon counselors. They told me that upon confessing that they were gay, that they were summarily excommunicated.

What area of the country was this? It seems crazy that a public school would hire someone with a clear religious bias to guide kids, but I’m from California and live in Massachusetts, both of which seem to be pretty progressive with that type of thing

We have a preacher serving as Dean of Students at my University. A profound conflict of interests. Being both some student's pastor and their disciplinarian!!

I attended a religious college, so any counseling I got was hostile and judgmental. That experience first started me rejecting religion.

When I was in Catholic high school, my guidance counselor was a nun. I had pretty much figured out where I was going to college, and her influence was non existent. So that sounds similar. It turned out ok, but no thanks to the nun.