"pathological" abuser or the teachers and adminisrators that knew about these terrible acts but did not do anything to stop him. Although the abuser was "pathological" and could not be reformed, I still believe that it was his actio and he should be penalized. It would have been the ethical thing for the teachers to try and stop this act, but at the same time, can you convict someone for not being ethical. Unless there was a rule or law that enforced the teachers to report this type of thing, just as there is at New Trier, I do not believe that the teachers should be convivted of anything. I agree that it was morally and ethically wrong, but as much as it disgusts me, they did not break any laws and therefor the judge made the correct decision in not convicting the bystanders. I believe that the abuser was the one who broke the law and he is should be rightfully convicted for his actions.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Who's at fault?
In class we have been discussing a video clip about a section of a book written by Al Gore that is promoting the impeachment of Goerge Bush. In the video he relates the situaion to a past situation that was tried in court. There was a teacher who for the past ten years was abusing boys that were students at the school he worked at. And the conflict was who should be punished? The 
"pathological" abuser or the teachers and adminisrators that knew about these terrible acts but did not do anything to stop him. Although the abuser was "pathological" and could not be reformed, I still believe that it was his actio and he should be penalized. It would have been the ethical thing for the teachers to try and stop this act, but at the same time, can you convict someone for not being ethical. Unless there was a rule or law that enforced the teachers to report this type of thing, just as there is at New Trier, I do not believe that the teachers should be convivted of anything. I agree that it was morally and ethically wrong, but as much as it disgusts me, they did not break any laws and therefor the judge made the correct decision in not convicting the bystanders. I believe that the abuser was the one who broke the law and he is should be rightfully convicted for his actions.
"pathological" abuser or the teachers and adminisrators that knew about these terrible acts but did not do anything to stop him. Although the abuser was "pathological" and could not be reformed, I still believe that it was his actio and he should be penalized. It would have been the ethical thing for the teachers to try and stop this act, but at the same time, can you convict someone for not being ethical. Unless there was a rule or law that enforced the teachers to report this type of thing, just as there is at New Trier, I do not believe that the teachers should be convivted of anything. I agree that it was morally and ethically wrong, but as much as it disgusts me, they did not break any laws and therefor the judge made the correct decision in not convicting the bystanders. I believe that the abuser was the one who broke the law and he is should be rightfully convicted for his actions.
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By knowing about the abuse and not telling anyone the teachers can be counted as obstructing justice. They may as well be counted as accomplices because they allowed the crime to go on and did nothing to stop it even though they could have. If a teacher at New Trier finds out a student is doing something illegal ,then that teacher is legally obligated to report that. By not doing so that teacher would be breaking the law.
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