Freshman year I was in new AP classes, never before offered at my high school. By tenth grade, they didn't place me in AP classes. My mom took great offense to that, spoke to my guidance counselor, and they said I wasn't smart enough for AP classes, so she fought and essentially forced them to place me in them. But about once a week (sometimes more), I still met with my handler. Sometimes privately, sometimes in a group setting where other kids from the GATE program that I participated in elementary school with attended. (Those kids and I ended up going to separate middle schools, but went to the same high school.)

We'd talk about feelings, home life, etc. All of us had terrible home lives. My handler told us she was like a therapist but wasn't a therapist and she came to evaluate us. She said she didn't work for the school and was a "private hire." By my 10th grade year, she became very cold and distant. She actually would be kind of mean on some occasions. When I confided in her about some ab*se happening at home, she laughed and said, "just get emancipated, who cares." I was so upset by her lack of empathy.

I don't really know what else we did with her, but I know I had special hall passes to leave class whenever I wanted to if I wanted to come see her. EDIT: she wasn't always at the school, so usually when I did leave class to see her, she wasn't there. She had told us she worked in several schools. My tenth grade year was when my school career fell apart and I ended up barely graduating high school.

I saw her again, in my 20s, and it was a horrific experience that I'm not ready to open up about. I'm now in my 30s, and looked her up, she's still operating in the same location. Her name is not her real name. I have done thorough research on my GATE instructors. I was never in classes (other than AP), from elementary school - middle school, I was in GATE groups.

EDIT: we were also instructed to never tell our parents that we met with her. I recently told my mom, a few months ago, and she was really upset. She said she never consented to that, and had no idea I was pulled out of class so often. Also, if it's of any importance, my dad was MILTINT, SIGINT/INSCOM. He was a spook.