School Safety: MN has 4th worst student/counselor ratio

As dialogue, debate and legislation focuses on improving school safety, counselors in Minnesota say they want to be part of the discussion after years of lagging behind the rest of the country.

"Really, the majority of my training in graduate school was in the mental health field," said Katherine Vasil, a middle school counselor in the Anoka/Hennepin school district. "We are on the front lines working with students through stress and trauma and mental illness and family issues."

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