Ethical Educator

Is a superintendent doubling as an adjunct professor obliged to write a recommendation letter for a manipulative advisee?

Is it apropos for an administrator to support students charged with violence by serving as a character witness during court proceedings?

What to do about a board president who requests a list of proposals for compensation and benefits for a contract renewal, then shares the list with the local press as the superintendent’s demands?

Does a teacher’s profanity-laced tirade to his son’s varsity football coach warrant disciplinary action?

A dilemma involving a teacher who uses an online tool without permission to raise funds for a class set of 20 Chromebooks.

A teacher hosts a party for her son and friends, but then alcohol turns up. Does the educator have a duty to report this to someone in administration?

Sorting out the differences between teaching about religion and hosting religious celebrations.

An educator gets in between two feuding parents to protect a high schooler.

Ask community members what they want in school climate and they’ll answer: ‘Develop the whole child’

Is punishment deserved for a teacher who leaves a .50-caliber rifle displayed visibly inside his pickup truck in the school lot?