A Board Candidate Delivering Stealth With Therapy
December 01, 2023
Appears in December 2023: School Administrator.
Ethical Educator
Scenario: 
An assistant superintendent for instruction in a suburban community learns from her weekly newspaper that her physical therapist is running for the school board. The candidate does not respond to interview requests from the local newspaper so his reasons for running are not listed. Online searches, however, reveal he’s running as someone who wants to “eliminate ‘woke’ ideology from our schools.” Because the assistant superintendent disagrees with the candidate’s political views and opposes his candidacy for the school board, does she have an ethical duty to change therapists?
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The Ethical Educator panel consists of
- Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts’ Successes and Setbacks.
- Roark Horn, the Pomerantz endowed professor in educational excellence, University of Northern Iowa;
- Baron Davis, senior adviser, Digital Promise, Columbia, S.C.; and
- Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.
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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