Communication and controversy

In this assignment, you will research current events involving communication and controversy within educational organizations and explain how you, as an instructional leader, would have handled the controversies.

• Create a 5 to 7-page paper (not including the title and references pages) in a Word document for your response.
• Use APA format for paper, title, references page, and in-text citations.
• Develop an introduction and conclusion for your paper.
• Follow the directions to submit your final Word document.

Research two current events involving communication and controversy within educational organizations. Specifically examine the role of technology in communicating the controversies.

Describe the events, the communication that took place, and why the communication was effective/positive or ineffective/negative. How did social, economic, technological, and logistical factors impact the communication?

As an instructional leader, how would you have handled the controversies? Describe how what you learned can be applied in (1) an educational environment and (2) as an instructional leader.

Answer preview

I will use an event from the Canon-McMillan School District in Eighty Four Pennsylvania, to illustrate this. In 2016, the district came up with a lunch shaming policy that required cafeteria employees to dispose of any remaining hot lunches instead of serving them to students who are unable to clear off their debts (Kate, 2019). One of the cafeteria workers felt it was unethical to do this and quit their job. Instead of seeing the harm, the policy will do, the Canon-McMillan school board defended it, with one of the board members indicating that they came up with the policy, not to embarrass students but rather to help recoup the money their families owed the district. He further stated before they instituted the policy, three hundred families owed the district between sixty thousand dollars and one hundred thousand dollars.

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Communication and controversy