While there are many ethical issues in schools, all of these issues are teaching opportunities to improve ethics in students to create a more ethical society.
Examples of ethical dilemmas in Education
Schools face numerous ethical issues every day. While some might be more difficult to see, such as poor curriculum choices, others are more obvious, such as cheating. Sometimes, the sheer number of students and workload may make teachers less willing to risk their jobs to tackle ethical issues. 1. Social And Ethnic Issues Social and ethnic differences are often ignored in public schools, possibly leaving some students behind. 2. Cheating And Assisted Cheating Cheating has always been an ethical issue plaguing schools. It’s often difficult to uncover in the best of circumstances, but large classroom sizes in public schools make this worse. In addition to standard cheating, assisted cheating is also becoming a major ethical problem. Teachers may “assist” students who are struggling in order to boost a classroom or school’s overall scores to increase funding. Performance isn’t the way to offer funding and it’s hurting the ethics of public schools. 3. Bullying Bullying affects...
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