Ethical Educator

The conflicted loyalties of a superintendent who must testify in a discrimination suit waged by a candidate for a principalship.

A high school English teacher offers financial incentives to the top test scorer and the biggest test improver. Should administrators allow this?

A veteran board member insists on shooting off fireworks at the start of each high school football season, a violation of state law that fellow board members ignore. Should the new superintendent of the small, rural district intervene?

Our panel tackles the case of a principal’s job offer withdrawn from a primary grades teacher who refused to shave his long beard.

Our ethics panel differs on handling alleged plagiarism by a school staff member while completing graduate studies.

The father of a female student has confessed to paying for sex with a teenage prostitute. His name does not appear on the county’s database of sex offenders. Should the principal share any information with the school’s parents?

The superintendent wants to suspend an alleged perpetrator while the district’s attorney calls only for a stern letter of reprimand. How might you proceed?

What does our ethics panel suggest about a basketball coach who uses his off-season club for his school team’s tryouts?

A district employee learns about parents’ plans to use faked doctors’ forms for their children’s required vaccinations for school admission. Does the employee have a duty to report what he has heard?

Angered over the election of Donald Trump, a teacher lambasts his students who supported the victor for aligning with a “racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic” individual. The district must respond.