Bummed Boosters: ‘No Rah-Rah’

Topics: Ethics, School Administrator Magazine

May 01, 2020

Ethical Educator
Scenario:
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The high school’s student newspaper staff wants to begin livestreaming home varsity football and basketball games via Facebook so people can watch from any location at no charge.

Several school board members, long active in the athletic boosters, object, contend the remote viewing will depress needed revenue from admission and food/beverage sales at home games.

The athletic director takes no stance, leaving the decision to the superintendent and the board.

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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.

Do you have a suggestion for a dilemma to be considered?
Send it to: magazine@aasa.org

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