Mrs. Pettit's Case Study

What you do with your own time away from work should not affect your work life, unless you present it in your work environment. Per Shaw (2014) Mrs. Pettit and her partner was living a “nonconventional sex life style,” she was asked by local television to converse ideas under camouflages, but was still recognized by one or her peers. She and her husband was being watched by some undercover police while they were at a sexual private party. She was later arrested and charge, because they thought she was violating California Penal Code. But, she was of age at the time, so the penal code does not apply. (Pg. 342, Par 2.) The Board of Education thought that they were protecting Mrs. Pettis’s interest by firing her, but what they were doing was violating her Rights and Privacy. They move from giving her credit as being a great …show more content…
Pettit’s behavior was not unethical or immoral, per justice Tobringer, Shaw (2014), because he could not find any indication of unfitness to teach. He also, quantified that the study presented that women around Pettit’s instructive level and age participate in oral copulation. (pg. 343 par. 3.) No, Mrs. Petti was not an unfit teacher, what she does in her own private live should not hinder her from doing her job as an educator. She is not teaching sexual explicitness to her students that would be unethical on such a high level. These children she’s teaching is special needs children and it take a special teacher like Mrs. Petti, who has the skills and the requirement to do such a thing. So, she is not unfit.
Morality, respect for others, trustworthiness, accountability for individual actions, are all examples of moral values. They are what defines the principles that controller how we act. Everyone, who works with the public should be held at a high moral standard. What we do outside socially portray who we are, but if we do it in the privacy of our home or other private resident should not define us, because that is out moral