Ethical Dilemma

Step 1:

Our school is a government school that follows the approach, vision and mission of the Ministry, which believes that one of its most important priorities is raising the academic achievement of students. From this standpoint, all departments of the school in various specializations seek to show gradual and satisfactory results, as students’ grades must improve with each quarterly evaluation. Sometimes this happens. Things that contradict ethical charters and contradict all the values ​​that we embrace. The coordinator sometimes forces us during marking in the final exams to overlook some major and obvious errors in the answers.

Whereas in previous exams it gives us very precise instructions and forces us to be accurate in correcting and not to be lenient in assigning more marks than what the student deserves, and I think this is not fair. It makes us measure with different standards in each test. The problem is that one of the teachers objected to this previously, and I remember that she later submitted her resignation because she rejected such repeated ethics in many situations.

There is a teacher who is still continuing to work with us, but she had objected to these decisions before as well, and she ended up signing a paper (justification) for violating the coordinator’s orders.

Step 2:

Actros: The coordinator, me, the rest of my colleagues, the school administration. The coordinator is the one who dictates the decisions. We are obligated to implement them, and the administration takes strict measures against those who violate the coordinator’s decisions because it is responsible for our performance and for correcting the tests.

Step 3:

I feel sad because in such situations I have to think a lot, should I break the law and not abide by certain laws? Or should I violate the ethical charter that my colleagues and I signed immediately after we started our work in this school?! Is it reasonable for me to deviate from the truth? Can I change my morals in such situations and go against the values ​​I grew up with and the principles I got used to?

I believe that it is necessary to maintain my correct position in the face of the wrong direction in which the coordinator supported by the administration is leading us.

I thought carefully about whether my position was correct or not, and I conducted a test of right from wrong, and I found the following:

1- I found a violation of the law by the administration and the coordinator because they did not follow a clear law and did not apply it at all times.

2- I found a deviation from the ethical norms that we agreed upon in the paper that we signed at the beginning of our work in this school.

 The presence of these two points is evidence of the correctness of my position.

Step 4:

Here I will start thinking about the two different points of view, (correct vs. correct).

I may disagree with the coordinator and strongly oppose her decisions, but what if I contemplated the situation from her point of view. She believes that this would make work at the school go well, in fulfillment of the ministry’s demand, which is (the necessity of students’ academic level being graded) and for them to obtain in each test Academic rate is stronger than before. There must be a clear increase in the rate of academic achievement, and work will be disrupted if the coordinator does not implement these instructions issued by the school administration, so her decision may also be correct.