Ethics

As a principal, you will be expected to make numerous sound and moral legal decisions regarding student rights in the school setting. Examples of such student rights issues include freedom of speech, locker and backpack searches, personal privacy, and due process for students with exceptionalities. A principal must act with integrity and fairness to ensure the school system is held accountable for every student’s academic and social success. To be an effective leader and decision-maker on such issues, the principal should be familiar with cases that specifically speak to student rights in the educational arena. Part 1: Case Analysis Using the “Case Analysis Template,” address each step of the decision-making model to render a decision for Case 14. Part 2: Rationale Support the case analysis with a 500-750 word rationale explaining the decisions you made and how those decisions: Support the school’s vision and mission and safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity. Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling. Promote collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations. Cite the case and any other source documents as appropriate. APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

1) Summarize the arguments employed by the authors to support their claim that the moral judgment of psychopaths is impaired and that therefore, psychopaths should not be prosecuted in the criminal justice system.  2) Critically evaluate these arguments – that is, are the authors’ arguments for why psychopaths have impaired moral behaviour strong or weak? Back up your evaluation of these arguments using the basic theories of ethics discussed in the first week of class.

Students will use their allocated topic to develop a sound ethical argumentative opinion piece. Assignment details: During the 1st week of lectures your tutor will allocate a topic for discussion from the prescribed four options. Using the allocated topic given to you construct an argumentative essay.   Purpose: The purpose of this assessment is for students to demonstrate the capacity to develop an ethical argument/s based on the four ethical principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.   TOPIC 4. Governments should have the authority to stop citizens from participating in community activities when they refuse immunizations.

In Chapter 1 of your text, you saw how moral reasoning involves moving back and forth between general, abstract ideas like principles and values and particular concrete judgments about what is good or right, and seeking to find a kind of agreement or equilibrium between those. In Chapters 3, 4, and 5, you were introduced to utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Each of these ethical theories represents different ways of reasoning about ethical questions, based in different account of the principles, values, and other conceptions that inform the “abstract” side of the dialectic. In this course, and in much of life, the “concrete” ethical issues that receive the most attention are frequently those that elicit passionate responses and widespread debate, affect large numbers of people, involve matters of deep significance like life and death or fundamental rights, and so on. However, as important as these issues are, there is often a limit to how much impact most individuals can have on such matters; instead, the place where ethics and moral reasoning have their greatest impact is in one’s local community. Thus, in this final discussion board, you will demonstrate your grasp of the relation between the abstract ideas in one of these theories and a concrete ethical issue or social problem in your local community. Engage the community: Begin by finding an ethical issue or social problem that currently impacts or has recently impacted your local or regional community (such as your neighborhood, town or city, county, school district, religious community, or something of similar scope to any of these). Briefly summarize the issue or problem, and provide a link to a news article, video, or some other resource that documents the issue or problem so that your fellow students can learn more about it when formulating their responses to you. Apply the theory: Next, choose one of the ethical theories and discuss how the moral reasoning of the theory might be used to address or resolve the issue or problem. Evaluate the reasoning: In evaluating the application of the moral theory you may, for example, consider one or more questions like: Does this differ from the way this issue is currently being addressed? Does it present a better response than another ethical approach would? Does the theory present an adequate response to the issue, or does it leave significant aspects of the issue unresolved? Does applying the theory to this issue raise other problems or concerns? In light of this issue, are there ways the principles or values of the theory might need to be modified from the form that we studied in class?

Charitably imagine how de Beauvoir, from her Ethics of Ambiguity, would argue for or against a significant argument from English’s “What do Adult Children Owe Their Parents,” they argue for or against that imagined argument. In five pages 1) explain to your reader the bare minimum needed to know from either English’s “What do Adult Children Owe Their Parents” or de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity, depending on the one you exclusively focus on in your essay; 2) argue for or against one significant argumentative claim made by either English’s “What do Adult Children Owe Their Parents” or de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity (note, your essay should exclusively focus in on one of the two authors); and 3) defend your argument against a naysayer.

Why is being an effective follower important? Additionally, why is “managing up” important as a follower within an organization? Describe the strategy for managing up that you most prefer. Explain. Include 1 research cited. The learning objectives which align with this discussion forum include: Effectively manage both up and down the hierarchy Apply the principles of effective followership, including responsibility, service, challenging authority, participating in change, and knowing when to leave Implement the strategies for effective followership at school or work

Write a short composition consisting of at least one and a half pages but no more than three pages of a nonsense essay, where you describe three logically impossible scenarios, and why they are logically impossible? Please explain.

The discussions include an ethical dilemma form each chapter. Use the steps on page 16 to analyze each dilemma. Make your responses detailed and thoughtful. I encourage you to type it in a word processing program to check for grammar and spelling. However, do not attach a word document to the discussion. You are also required to react to or comment on at least two other students’ responses to the question or topic. In this way, we can get a true discussion going about the topic. Make your comments to other students’ substantive. The instructor will assess each student’s participation for each discussion topic by assigning a score from 0 to 10 according to the criteria below: A Discussion (9-10 points): Distinguished/Outstanding Students earning an “A” for discussion activities have participated 3 or more times during the week and have posted outstanding information. “A” discussion postings • are made in time for others to read and respond • deliver information that is full of thought, insight, and analysis • make connections to previous or current content or to real-life situations • contain rich and fully developed new ideas, connections, or applications You are a rookie police officer who responds to a call for officer assistance. Arriving at the scene, you see a ring of officers surrounding a suspect who is down on his knees. You don’t know what happened before you arrived, but you see a sergeant use a Taser on the suspect, and you see two or three officers step in and take turns hitting the suspect with their nightsticks about the head and shoulders. This goes on for several minutes as you stand in the back of the circle. No one says anything that would indicate that this is not appropriate behavior. What would you do? What would you do later when asked to testify that you observed the suspect make “threatening” gestures to the officers involved?

Write a half single-space summary on the topic of why morality matters which should include the main topic or subject of the chapter and what appeared to be most important and relevant. The other half of the page should be single-spaced reflection that will represent your personal opinion on the chapter. this can include (culture, faith , personal experience), something that you liked or did not like about the chapter

Time to write up your social contract! I want you to explain your idea of the correct American social contract as pertaining to the American welfare system. This is an ideological document in which you will need to express the following items: A. What kind of creatures are human beings and why should they live under a government of any kind? (10 pts) B. If humans are going to live under a government, what is the best sort of “contract” that we should engage in between ruler and ruled? Or put another way, what sorts of duties/rights do the government and people owe each other? (15 pts) C. What rights should citizens enjoy, and what duties should they shoulder, in terms of their employment? Try to consider how we deal with different work statuses (permanently unemployed, temporarily unemployed, underemployed, self-employed, between jobs, etc). (15 pts) Note: This is not an assignment asking you what kind of social contract that we do have. I’m asking what kind of social contract do you wish that we would have in relation to work (employment and unemployment)? Very different question. So don’t get into explaining Constitutional history to me. You’re allowed to start completely from scratch. What sort of social work arrangement is best for human beings living in a diverse society? Facts, expert authorities, and logically reasoning from premise to conclusion in a consistent manner will all be helpful in making your point. You will need to complete this assignment in less than one single-spaced page or roughly 500 words. I will not set a minimum but rest assured that a 2-paragraph answer will not be sufficient to effectively complete the assignment.