From the beginning the Ministry of Education has really downplayed community involvement in school councils. In the documents they've put out, they suggest, well maybe if you have a person or two from the community that's adequate. In relation to the large number of students that we're looking at, we need many more people from the work community on the school council if we're going to achieve goals we've set out for school-work programs. With respect to the students who will be work oriented or engaged in applied learning, one of my ongoing concerns goes back to the 1960s. Strictly speaking community colleges should be taking in large numbers of workplace-bound kids and taking them to a point where they are workplace ready.
Schools can do that only to a limited degree.
As for career counseling, I think there's some that guidance counselors can do, but schools do have to draw on people from employment centres and from business and industry. It's very difficult for an in-school person to stay on top of what's going on in the outside world, and still be tied to the school every day.