The school administration is probably replete with individuals with “education” degrees. That should tell you who needs “counseling”.
I hear you about “education” degrees, having been aware of that con since I was at university. But this was a magnet school for technology and science, so someone there should have had some working brain parts.
I wonder why it never occurred to the vice-principal to ask “Little Billy” what he had made instead of calling in the troops first? Or perhaps he was afraid if “Little Billy” told him he would have to go look it up?
—when I was an engineering student in the early ‘sixties, it was well established that those who flunked out of the sciences should go into “education”—degree easy and guaranteed—they are now leading our “educational” establishment—
As someone who has a degree in education (K-12), I can attest that education majors are some of the dumbest hammers in the box.
Not wanting to associate with unintelligent yet arrogant people is part of the reason why, though I am more than qualified, I am not teaching.