Difficult Decision: When Personal Ethics Battle the Law
What are your legal obligations?
• What does the law say?
• What is your school district policy?
• What will happen if you don't follow the law?
Under the ethic of critique
• Who benefits from the outcome?
• Are the demands on the school too great?
• If benefit accrues to the school, who in it benefits?
Under the ethic of justice
• Who suffers from the outcome?
• Are demands on the individual too great?
• If benefit accrues to the individual, what happens to the group?
Under the ethic of care
• What happens to relationships?
• Are relational demands being met?
• How does the decision weaken or strengthen relationships?
Under the ethic of discourse
• Who is excluded from the decision?
• Are discourse demands met?
• Is the quality of the discourse changed?
• Is the quality of the decisions changed?
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