Mr. Hent as a new teacher in Long Reach High School lacks experience. During his first year as a teacher, he encountered two students, Emily Jobe and Zack Brown, who made a big impression on him. Emily was a hard working student who was always attentive in class and respectful to Mr. Hent. Zack was extremely disrespectful to the Mr. Hent. He was never in class and was always disruptive in class. As the semester was coming the end, the teacher assigned an assignment that was 50 percent of the grade. Emily didn’t put enough effort on the assignment, while Zach tried really hard on the assignment. However, Mr. Hent decided to grade these two based on his feelings toward them instead of their grades. The central ethical challenge is that was Mr. Hent’s grading decision ethical?
There are several ways Mr. Hent could have reacted to this situation. The best decision he should have done is abandoning his personal feelings and grading appropriately regardless of how he thinks. However, Mr. Hent was highly affected by how the student’s treated him. He was very sympathetic towards Emily while he had negative feelings for Zach. He could have also talked to people in higher authority about the situation. Talking to people such as the principal and other teacher’s would have been helpful to his situations. Since his colleagues have had more experience and might have already gone through a similar case. He should have also talked personally to the students involving their parents and the principal. Engaging such people around the students would influence the students to be honest. You can apply the Golden rule because Mr. Hent knows that he should treat others as he would like to be treated. He would not like to be ignored off their hard work as he treated Zach. He would not want to be failed just because of his personality or even fired just because he was rude to certain people. Role of benevolence: ughhhh He should know that whatever decision he picked, the needed to add the rule of universality. Iif he was going to judge these students based on his feelings, then he should do that for all his students. There was no need for assigning assignments to the students if he was just going to grade the students on their past behavior in classes. If Mr. Hent’s decision was shed to the light, he would have not been supported. He should have known that his decision would not have occurred if he knew that everyone would know. Because he thought that it was a personal grading, no one would know. What if Zach was able to prove that Mr. Hent graded on his feelings, then how told Mr. Hent feel about this? Would he have been fired? Or….