Main Ethical Issue – Interview with Norma Schuldt Norma is a retired sixth-grade teacher and shared several ethical issues that arose with parents, students, and colleagues during her tenure. One of those situations occurred while she was working on her thesis for her Master’s Degree which focused on Alternative Student Assessment and Reporting. Instead of assigning letter grades for each assignment, she wrote rubrics matching the curricula standards and what was expected for each area. When she reviewed the student’s work she marked the areas that reflected how the student did in each area. Then she wrote an overall narrative which included areas that showed good thinking, areas improved on, areas that still needed work, and how well the student …show more content…
Early in their marriage, Cindy and her husband struggled with infertility. After five years of marriage, they still had not been able to conceive so they began to investigate whether Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) was the right decision for them. Some of their struggles with ART were whether it was right to use science and medicine to assist them with getting pregnant? If so, how far were they willing to go? How much of their available resources were they willing to use to achieve their goal? As you can imagine they encountered a wide range of opinions from people about what was right or acceptable in this situation. From don’t play God and let nature take its course to those who believe they should use science and medicine and do whatever is necessary to get what they …show more content…
They also decided how much of their financial resources they would use and then leave the rest up to God. One of the determining factors in their decision is the belief that even though ART was not part of God’s original plan for how couples are to become pregnant, they also believe that God created the mind of the person that developed the technology to assist couples with conceiving a child. Three years after they began their journey, their daughter Elizabeth was born and is now sixteen years old. Two years later, to their great surprise, they got pregnant on their own and had a son,