Ethical Dilemmas

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Is it Ethical to Allow Some Students to Have More Access to Help and Time Than Other Students ? Ethics plays a part of everyday life; especially when it involves early childhood education. Teachers have to determine what they must do when it affects their students and their grades. Students throughout different classes have a hard time keeping up with school work and have a hard time understanding the taught concepts. Is it ethical to allow these students to have access to more help and more time than the rest of the students? The answer, like many ethical dilemmas, it depends. Teachers often make accommodations for students, for example giving extra time on a project because of a crisis. However, when does the teacher determine which …show more content…

If the teacher decides to help underachieving students more than she helps the other students, other problems may occur; it may even come to the point that the principal has to get involved along with other school board members. However, the same issue could happen if the teacher decides that she should not be burdened to give underachieving students the extra help they need. Teachers give tests to determine the knowledge the students have and where they are academically, however what if these students are not doing well because of other factors, not that they are underachieving students? A teacher must consider what the child is going through in order to make a wise decision about how much time and help they should get to catch up. This may bring up many questions like; is the reason worth giving the extra time and help to the student, what is the student having a hard time in, what type of student are they considered, has this happened previously. Questions like these have to be brought up in order to determine a good and fitting …show more content…

According to research being an underachieving student is not permanent. Underachievement, or a behavior, may be repaired only if the correct force of treatment is used. Like many other behaviors, if one gets into the habit of doing certain actions in particular ways it becomes hard to change, but that can be managed and improved with the correct help. According to Ford, “typically schools use teacher expectations, intelligence tests, achievement tests, aptitude test, and/or GPA” (The Underachieving Student) to determine where a student stands academically and into which category they fall into, but how accurate can those results be if “minority students do not do well on standardized tests” (The Underachieving Student). If that is the situation at hand then the tests given do not supply sufficient information because the minority students do not have a fair chance to prove their intelligence. Given this information by Ford it puts the whole education system into question. Therefore we must analyze the teacher’s code of ethics to determine if they are being unjust to these

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