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Your desire to become a school counselor can come from a variety of reasons. Some enter the school counselor profession due to positive personal experiences with school counselors. Others wish to be the school counselor that they never had so that young people would have a more positive experience with a school counselor. Still others may simply want to work with children and adolescents in a meaningful and positive way. Identifying and describing your reasons for wanting to become a school counselor can help you develop goals and build a foundation of a personal philosophy or school counseling.

It is likely that you have had personal experience interacting with school counselors, For this Discussion, reflect on your reasons for wanting to be a school counselor.