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ETHICAL DILEMMA
ETHICAL DILEMMA
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Ethical dilemma
Question 1:
John is one of the top students in Susan’s class regarding academic performance. However, Susan has noted that John has been skipping classes to attend extra sporting activities out of school. She has tried to warn severally, but John ignores the warning. If Susan reports the incident to the school management, John might face serious punishment, including being away from school for some time. However, Susan fears that John’s academic performance might be affected if he is suspended for some weeks. The situation presents an ethical dilemma, whether to report the performing student or remain silent and accommodate his repeated behavior.
Question 2:
According to a subjective moral relativist, moral judgment depends on an individual’s perspective. One might consider taking part in sporting activities during class time as an offense. Another person believes that as long as sporting activity is not illegal, students should not be punished if they involve themselves (Wreen, 2018).
Question 3:
A cultural relativist believes that for one to judge a situation, cultural values should be employed in making judgments instead of judging based on cultural grounds. John can participate in sporting activities during the class time since he loves sports. On the other hand, the situation can be viewed as that John is taking part in the wrong activity during the wrong time. Therefore, he should be punished (McGaughey, 2018). The two aspects should be considered before concluding the issue.
Question 4:
The most important action towards the situation should be advantageous to both sides. First, it should help Susan properly manage her classroom by ensuring that every student is involved in responsible behavior. At the same time, she should assist John in remaining active both in academic activities and sporting activities. The first step is to understand why he portrays such a different behavior from all other learners. For the sake of the class discipline and also John’s well-being, the teacher should collect the relevant details that should indiscipline actions of the student.
Question 5:
The objective moral truth is to engage with John to understand why he portrays such a behavior that is different from all other learners. Susan can conduct counseling sections whereby her main focus would be to help John manage his time to stop the indiscipline activities. Keeping him off school does not guarantee that he will change from the behavior; therefore, a counseling section would be more appropriate to stop the behavior.
References:
McGaughey, F. (2018). 8 Irish Travellers and Teenage Pregnancy: A Feminist, Cultural, Relativist Analysis. RE/ASSEMBLING THE PREGNANT AND PARENTING, 173. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/30015/650079.pdf?sequence=1#page=189
Wreen, M. (2018). What Is Moral Relativism? Philosophy, 93(3), 337-354.