Question: What can a
teacher do when forced to perform an unethical act in teaching?
Answer/Quote: Nothing. Read
on: “But an even more important regret about the structure of NCTE (National
Council of Teachers of English) is what I wish Ruth Cline’s (1990) NCTE
president) work on an ethics code had been adopted by NCTE. We need such a code….
That is, a K-12 teacher has a right to an ethical working condition (not being
asked to teach in a harmful manner). In NCTE’s Code for Right to Ethical
Conditions, a K-12 teacher could file a complaint about ethical conditions (‘I
am being required to perform an unethical act by my district’), and NCTE could
review the matter and make a recommendation—just as it does under the Right to
Read Policy where teachers report censorship cases….” P. 43.
Comment: A question: What ethics policies exist
throughout education? RayS.
Title: “Buckle Up for Interesting
Times.” Miles Myers. English Journal (September 2011), 33-42.
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