Code of Ethics Scenarios

1. The four areas of code are children, families, colleagues, and community and society.

2. A parent of a child who is visually impaired and hearing impaired stops at the lab school and wants to enroll their child in your program. You

A) Say that the child has too many specific needs and your program will not take him/her.

B) Say that the program is full and refer the parent to Mesa Developmental Services(a community program for children with significant disabilities)

C) Send them to the district office to fill out the appropriate enrollment forms.

3. A child at the lab school who has been with you all year and appears to have a good relationship with his mother but not his father begins to cry when dad picks him up after school that day. The child refuses to walk out of the building stating that his dad “hits” him. You

A) Call the mom and ask what to do?

B) Force the child to go with dad and make a note of the incident in the child’s file.

C) Call the Department of Human Services and report abuse by the dad on the child.

4. A child at the lab school says that he can not eat a certain food for snack because it is against his “religion”. You

A) Ask the child to taste it and then talk to mom when she picks him up.

B) Give the child another snack.

C) Call the mom and see if it is a true statement or not.

5. A child at your center comes to school dirty on every Monday morning. What would you do?

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