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PAULH
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abufletcher
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I suppose this stuff might be news in Mogadishu. Personally I could do without this legalistic side of the profession but then I've never been very political.
BTW, I don't see how this code of ethics "for language teachers" should/could be any different than the code of ethics for any teacher. It's sort of like having a separate hipocratic oath for each specialized type of medical doctor. |
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guest of Japan
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A scout is loyal, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, trustworthy, ........ brave, clean and reverant. Another useless laundry list of unenforceable ethical/moral standards.
The only thing that code of ethics is going to do is convince some naive young job hunter that there really are ethics in the industry, before he/she gets taken for a ride. |
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abufletcher
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| guest of Japan wrote: |
| A scout is loyal, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, trustworthy, |
 That was also my first reaction -- having been a scout myself way back when. Still I suppose there's nothing wrong with people reciting this kind of list to themselves. Maybe it actually does make one a better person. Hmmm...maybe I'm loyal, helpful, coutreous, kind, obedient, and trustworthy because I repeated this mantra once a week at scout meetings.  |
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angrysoba
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| The foreign language/second language teacher shall exercise authority in accordance with the law of the land and with evolving concepts of the students' needs and rights. |
...and if I were to work in North Korea would this mean informing authorities of subversive thoughts of my students? |
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abufletcher
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| angrysoba wrote: |
| ...and if I were to work in North Korea would this mean informing authorities of subversive thoughts of my students? |
I'm not so sure American schools are all that much more sympathetic to "subversive thoughts." |
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takamatsudaiki
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| IIRC, one of my teachers was working on that code of ethics. I don't remember exactly but it sounds vaguely familiar. |
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