Tag Archives: professionalism
The Emma Sullivan Affair: Not Just An Aberration
I believe 2011 is the year in which the teaching and school administration professions reached the tipping point where it is no longer rational to trust them. Does that mean that every single school, administrator and teacher is untrustworthy? No, of course not. What it means is that the education professional culture no longer rejects or even discourages incompetence, warped priorities and cowardice, so that parents and students cannot assume that problems or even regular duties will be handled fairly or well. Continue reading
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And You Thought Natalie Munroe Was An Unethical Teacher…Well, Meet Jeremy Hollinger
Remember Natalie Munroe, the teacher who blogged about how much she detested her high school students, calling them names like “rat-boy” and “jerkoff”? What, you may ask, could be more destructive to the necessary trust between teacher and student, or parents and the teacher to whom they entrust their student’s education, short of actual abuse? How about a teacher ridiculing his grade school special ed students? Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Week: Greta Van Susteren
Gtrea Van Susteren asks why Wisconsin journalists haven’t demanded that the thugs on the Wisconsin Supreme Court resign. Good question! Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Central Bucks East High School
Administrators at Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown,Pennsylvania, have decided to reinstate suspended teacher Natalie Munroe, who had made it very clear in several blog posts discovered by the school and her students last February that she detested her job and a great many of her students and their parents, spewing diatribes that ridiculed specific students for their appearance, habits, speech and character. There is no justification for this. Continue reading
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Rep. West’s E-mail: Not Sexist, But Uncivil and Unprofessional…Just Ask George Washington.
How uncivil was Rep. West’s e-mail to Rep. Wasserman-Schultz? Pretty uncivil. Just ask George Washington. Continue reading
Wanted, Desperately Needed, and Lacking: Professionals, Adults and Values in the Media
This is what happens when a vital democratic institution requiring integrity, self-control, professionalism, ethics and a sense of responsibility is in the control of second rate minds with third rate values. Continue reading
“Professionalism?” What’s THAT? Julie Chen, CBS and the Descent of Broadcast Journalism
Julie Chen disgraced her network, her profession, and, I’m sorry to say, her gender. This is the state of broadcast journalism in 2011; this is what CBS has descended to, from the days of Murrow, Severeid and Cronkite. Continue reading
Ethics, Porn, and the Creepy Professor
The Ronald Ayers saga raises the intriguing, Weiner-esque ethical issue of whether a college professor being creepy is sufficient reason to fire him. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “The Darkness of the Right, Pissing Away American Values”
In this entertaining Comment of the Day, Haddit (who, I gather, has “haddit” with all this ethics talk) gives a bravura performance of exactly where ethics-free thinking will get you in this and other war-related issues. Continue reading →
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