Taking Privilege into Account

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Topics: Access & Opportunity, Ethics, School Administrator Magazine

May 01, 2026

Appears in May 2026: School Administrator

Ethical Educator

Illustration of two people standing on top of money bags, one very large, one very small Scenario: The school district鈥檚 human resources director manages the summer intern program that relies on a dozen college seniors who are education majors at area universities as sports coaches/academic tutors for about 200 children. With two other colleagues, the HR director must decide to whom among them to offer full-time teaching positions following graduation. The interns coming from more well-to-do backgrounds appear to perform better than those who come from less privileged backgrounds. In ranking these interns, should the HR director take their personal life circumstances into consideration or evaluate interns solely on job performance?

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The Ethical Educator panel consists of

Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts鈥� Successes and Setbacks.
Susan Enfield, executive director, University of Washington鈥檚 Center for Educational Leadership, Seattle, Wash.
Arthur Schwartz, president, .
Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.

Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.

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