Ethical Issues In Education Research Paper

There are a number of trending ethical and unethical issues being presented in education. It is known that “ethical issues”, is a commonly problematic situation that entails a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right or wrong (dictionary). When we combine ethical issues with education, we see a number of unethical behavior being practiced, that is causing an issue in education. There have been a specific situation at my current job in which the decision-making process is based on ethical principles. At Nimitz Ninth Grade School, we pride ourselves in excellence. This school is centrally located between families who come from a wealthy back-ground, and families who come from nothing. As a member of the leadership team, the school principal has requested a 3% increase in the school budget for the following year. This increase is to fund new creativities that were suggested by the school improvement team, to increase our STARR scores. The issue with this reduction is that for the past 8 years, the school has been given an assortment of funds to cover all of their expenses. Being in a title 1 district, this school has never faced a problem such as this before. When this increase was proposed to the local …show more content…
I suggested that the situation could be better addressed in the future by enacting on the deficiency of the mission statement, and by conducting a community base plan. By displaying a strong, genuine mission statement and producing a community base plan, I believe that the school will indeed meet their goal prior to the 2016-17 school year. Some of the goals that I have establish in order to ensure that this situation would be handled properly in the future, is to establish a well-defined effective and clear mission statement, and to ensure it is displayed on the school 's home