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Comment of the Day: “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”

The Ethics Alarms resident atheist backs graduating high school senior Damon Fowler, voting for “hero” rather than the jerk-in-training assessment of my original posts on the student who got a prayer removed from his school’s graduation ceremony. Continue reading

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Damon Fowler, School Adminstrator-In-Training?

Either by design, bias, or because I was not sufficiently clear (always a distinct possibility), a lot of readers seem to have misunderstood the central principle in my post about Damon Fowler, the Louisiana high school senior who singled-handedly bluffed his school out of including a prayer in his graduation ceremonies. Let me clarify. Continue reading

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The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer

Is an atheist high school student who single-handedly blocks his school from having a prayer at graduation a hero or a jerk?

Well, neither. He’s a high school student. But he’s growing up to be a jerk. Perhaps even a fick. Continue reading

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The Naked Teacher Principle Strikes Again!

And the Naked Teacher Principle claims another victim. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “Facebook Wars II”

A commenter’s theory about why school administrators are engaging in so much ethically dubious conduct Continue reading

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Facebook Wars II: More School Abuse of Power and Privacy

I see no reason, if the extension of school authority off of school grounds is allowed to continue, why the next school won’t suspend its students for making disrespectful statements about President Obama on Facebook, or making derogatory statements about illegal immigrants, or passing along politically incorrect jokes, or disapproving of the Ground Zero Mosque, or posting cross-hairs as a graphic, or using the CNN-banned word “crosshairs”, or criticizing the teachers union. Continue reading

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The Wrestler, the Girl, and Cultural Confusion

Was the high school wrestler’s decision not to wrestle a girl admirable, or sexist? Was it gentlemanly, or demeaning? Continue reading

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Take “The Natalie Munroe Ethics Challenge”! Today’s Challenge: Who’s A More Unethical Educator—School or Mom?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Decide which of these stories from today’s newswires show more unethical conduct. First, the Mom: Tampa mother Ronda Holder was at her wit’s end trying to get her son, James Mond III, … Continue reading

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The Ashley Payne Affair Revisited

I retract the earlier post about the teacher fired for violating a school policy by posting a photo of herself drinking a beer on Facebook. Ashley Payne did nothing wrong. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “Facebook Wars: Parental Abdication, School Abuse of Power”

The Comment of the Day is from Joshua, from the lively thread on the post “Facebook Wars: Parental Abdication, School Abuse of Power.” Continue reading

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