A Split Decision
June 01, 2020
Appears in June 2020: School Administrator.
Ethical Educator
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Scenario:
The head librarian at a 2,500-student high school has two direct reports, one of whom works 10 hours a week.
A diligent worker, she is out on a three-month childbirth leave but wishes to return. The chief librarian hires a fill-in, who proves to be even more hardworking and independent.
As the leave nears its end, the young mother seeks an additional month at home. The librarian wonders whether to accede to the request and, once she does return, to keep both workers for five hours a week, which strikes her as a paltry number of hours.
The school’s principal learns of the matter. What guidance might he provide?
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The Ethical Educator panel consists of
- Shelley Berman, superintendent, Andover, Mass.;
- Meira Levinson, professor of education, Harvard University, and author of Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries;
- Maggie Lopez, retired superintendent in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and
- Glenn "Max" McGee, a former superintendent and regional president of ECRA Group in Schaumburg, Ill.
Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.
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