Ethics Of Care Argumentative Essay

Mrs. Walker has been with the school for about ten years and regardless is loved by the Parents. She is a huge asset to the school in a sense that she has helped win them a lot of championships. One can argue that teachers are held to a very high standard (sometimes unrealistic) because they are the ones building our future leaders. Although it was done in her own time outside school, she has spoken negatively about one of her students. The State of Florida has determined that although Teachers have a right to their freedom of speech outside the school, talking about a student on social media in a manner that is disruptive to the school and the student’s attention on daily procedures doesn’t fall under that protection
Halima has spoken about the issue in the school demanding that Mrs. Walker should get fired. The Principal has to make a decision that causes the least disadvantage to the school. While considering the fact that Mrs. Walker and the group …show more content…
Ethics of care has a moral obligation, which in this case is not to cause harm on Halima and instead fire the coach. In an interview held with Gilligan she states that, “its logic is inductive, contextual, psychological, rather than deductive or mathematical.” This means even though firing the coach and closing the group will have a lot more disadvantages to it according to ethics of care the Principal will have to put into account the wrong doing of the coach and the hurt she has caused Halima. Consequentialism is not the best choice her because it would side with Mrs. Walker due to the greater consequences that come out of it. Firing her would have a lot more disadvantages than giving her a lighter punishment. And it wouldn’t be the best frame work to use because it doesn’t account for human feelings, in this case Halima’s