I have a student who is from a single parent family. The student must work to attend college. However, the job is interfering with the student’s performance and several assignments have not been turned in. I have determined that a “D” is all the student can make when a counselor informs me that the student need a “C” to qualify for an academic scholarship.’ What do you do? (Ethical Dilemmas." Encyclopedia of Counseling (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 17 May 2017).
The ethical issue is that I have a student who have to work to attend college, but because he is working so much the student’s grades had slip, and the student is missing assignments. For these reasons the best grade the student can receive is a D but the student need a C to qualify for a scholarship. …show more content…
If they would have balancing their job life by still working and school life by doing good on school work, and turning in school work on time, then their grade would possibly be good, and they would be already qualified for the scholarship. I think the moral recipient would be the student’s family because if the student cannot get a pay vacation then the student would miss out on a paycheck which could helping the student’s family with bills, and bringing food in the house. I think the moral recipient would be the student’s job because if the student is an excellent worker at their job, then they could miss out on their excellent work ethic. I think the theory I would use is Duty Ethics which can be defined as people are morally obligated to do the right thing, regardless of the outcome is good or bad. I think this theory to come to an ethical decision because the right thing in this case would be to tell the student to take some time off from work, and stay after school to make up any missing school assignments that they are missing. If the outcome is the student’s missing work which could mean they may be losing on paycheck, and the other outcome is the student’s grade will come and they will quality for that scholarship. However, whatever the outcome is, the student need to miss work for a while to make up their grade and missing
The ethical issue is that I have a student who have to work to attend college, but because he is working so much the student’s grades had slip, and the student is missing assignments. For these reasons the best grade the student can receive is a D but the student need a C to qualify for a scholarship. …show more content…
If they would have balancing their job life by still working and school life by doing good on school work, and turning in school work on time, then their grade would possibly be good, and they would be already qualified for the scholarship. I think the moral recipient would be the student’s family because if the student cannot get a pay vacation then the student would miss out on a paycheck which could helping the student’s family with bills, and bringing food in the house. I think the moral recipient would be the student’s job because if the student is an excellent worker at their job, then they could miss out on their excellent work ethic. I think the theory I would use is Duty Ethics which can be defined as people are morally obligated to do the right thing, regardless of the outcome is good or bad. I think this theory to come to an ethical decision because the right thing in this case would be to tell the student to take some time off from work, and stay after school to make up any missing school assignments that they are missing. If the outcome is the student’s missing work which could mean they may be losing on paycheck, and the other outcome is the student’s grade will come and they will quality for that scholarship. However, whatever the outcome is, the student need to miss work for a while to make up their grade and missing