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The Delayed Dismissal (May 2012)

The superintendent discovers a female teacher may be having an affair with an 11th-grade female student. The initial confrontation...
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One Tuesday last March, a bomb threat was called into West Genesee High School, students and staff were evacuated into 20-degree temperatures, held on school buses and finally sent home.

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The Ethical Educator

The Delayed Dismissal (May 2012)

Scenario: The superintendent discovers a female teacher may be having an affair with an 11th-grade female student. The initial confrontation with the teacher elicits a denial. After a weekend of thinking about the consequences, the teacher confesses. The superintendent’s first inclination is to fire the teacher on the spot. But only four more weeks remain in the school year, including exam preparation. Would it be a better, less disruptive plan to insist the teacher leave the profession when the school year ends in another month, forbid the teacher to have any contact whatsoever with the student and begin a quiet counseling process with the student?

Read our panelists' responses here.

Each month, The Ethical Educator will draw on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma. Submit your own ethical dilemma by clicking here or emailing magazine@aasa.org.
Read archived dilemmas here.

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