Parents, teachers and high school counselors are also key to starting a turnaround.

Yet the Brooks children had not been encouraged to go to college by their high school counselors.

I had a session with my high school guidance counselor.

"If there was a little job I wanted to do, they wouldn't let me," he said, referring to his high school counselors.

Still, students, parents, college officials and high school guidance counselors have strong opinions about the value of a private education.

Moses now works with younger children between 7-14 and is one of the most popular high school counselors in the program.

Interested individuals are encouraged to contact their high school counselor.

She's in many ways a weak, confused girl, the type high school counselors worry about.

In principle, any high school counselor can make such calls.

"I hear high school counselors pushing the kids to nearby safety schools instead."