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Legal Scenarios in Education Ethics

This document presents 15 situations involving teachers and students and asks the respondent to cite the relevant law and provision for each situation and explain their understanding of the cited provision. The situations involve issues like teachers disciplining students, delegation of authority in the classroom, sexual harassment, grading practices, student and family privacy rights, bullying, teacher credentials and professional development, disclosure requirements, duty of care for student safety, domestic abuse reporting, leave policies for teachers, obligations to provide student records, financial issues interfering with work, bullying reporting, and religious discrimination in hiring. The respondent is asked to demonstrate their understanding of education, anti-discrimination, and labor laws.

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Legal Scenarios in Education Ethics

This document presents 15 situations involving teachers and students and asks the respondent to cite the relevant law and provision for each situation and explain their understanding of the cited provision. The situations involve issues like teachers disciplining students, delegation of authority in the classroom, sexual harassment, grading practices, student and family privacy rights, bullying, teacher credentials and professional development, disclosure requirements, duty of care for student safety, domestic abuse reporting, leave policies for teachers, obligations to provide student records, financial issues interfering with work, bullying reporting, and religious discrimination in hiring. The respondent is asked to demonstrate their understanding of education, anti-discrimination, and labor laws.

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Name: ______________________________________________

What laws will you apply for the following situations? Cite the exact provision or article from the
law. Explain your understanding of the cited provision/article.

1. The teacher making the students to stand outside of the classroom because of not doing their
assignments. (Family Code) (Code of Ethics Resolution No. 435)

2. The teacher asks the student leader to take over the class because of a family emergency.
Seatwork is left by the teacher for the student leader to supervise. (e=Education Act No. 1982)
3. The teacher jokingly calls his favorite Grade 9 student “Honey” and invites her for a date. (RA No
7877)
SECTION 3. Work, Education or Training -Related, Sexual Harassment Defi ned. -
Work, educati on or training-related sexual harassment is committed by an
employer, employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the employer, teacher, instructor,
professor, coach, train or, or any other person who, having authority, influence or moral
ascendancy over another in awork or training or educati on environment,
demands, requests or otherwise requires any sexual favor from the other, regardless
of whether the demand, request or requirement for submission is accepted by the

object of said Act.


(4) When the sexual advances result in an intimidating, hostile or offensive
environment for the student, trainee or apprentice.
4. The teacher gives Armando a failing grade of 70% in English because he fails to clean the

classroom (Education Act of 1982)

Sec. 9. Right of Students in School – In addition to other rights, and subject to


the limitation prescribed by law and regulations, and student and pupils in all
schools shall enjoy the following rights: 4. The right of access to his own school records,
the confidentiality of which the school shall maintain and preserve.
5. The teacher denying the parents the complete scholastic performance of their son Rico. The
parents of Rico want to see the raw scores of Rico in all his quizzes (Education Act of 1982)
6. Athena posted in her Facebook that her classmate Sonia is ugly because of pills all over her face.
The post receives several “likes” from netizens (RA Nos 10627,10175).
7. Mrs. Lydia Santos always refuses her principal in asking her to attend seminars that will help her
improve her teaching competencies. Mrs. Santos claims that she has nothing more to learn as a
teacher. (Education Act of 1982)
8. Miss Rita a Kindergarten teacher did not include in her document that she has a live-in partner.
(Code of Ethics Resolution No. 435)
9. The teacher failed to give first aid treatment to Antonio who accidentally bumped his nose at
the doorknob. Antonio went home with bleeding nose. (Family Code)
10. Tina, a Grade 2 student reported to her teacher that she is always beaten by her stepfather and
showed to the teacher her bruised legs. (Family Code)
11. Mrs. Jinn de los Santos, a public-school teacher, has been a perfect attendance awardee for 10
years. Mrs. De los Santos files one year leave with pay because she is given scholarship to study
abroad but her principal does not want to give her the permission. (Magna Carta for Public
School Teacher)
12. Therese Athena graduated in April but the school failed to issue her transcript of records in June
which caused her to lose the chance of being employed in the company she applied. (Education
Act of 1982)
13. Mrs. Chona Cruz was summoned in the office of the principal because of frequent phone calls
from credit and loan agencies demanding that Mrs. Cruz be advised by the principal to pay her
outstanding credit loan. (Code of Ethics)
14. Mr. and Mrs. Gutierrez told the teacher of their son Alex that he does not want to come to
school anymore because his classmates call him ugly duckling. The teacher claims that she
doesn’t know the incident. (RA No 10627)
15. Mr. James Smith, a LET passer teacher applied in the public school. Mr. Smith passed the
competitive examination and was given his rank. Later on, he was told that he lost the item
because he is not a practicing Catholic. (Magna Carta for Public School teacher)

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