DAY+73+MORAL+REASONING

__**SPECIAL REMINDER:**__ __**School will not be in session on Monday, January 2, 2012. I Repeat - school will not be in session on 1/2/12.**__ __**We will resume school on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012.**__ Tomorrow there will be a presentation offered by the Marine Corps. Cass Wright is coming in tomorrow at 1:45 to meet with our potential graduates to further explain the various aspects of post-secondary education. This presentation will be held in the Skills Center board room. All potential graduates are invited; if interested in these two events see Ms. Schneider today. Thank you __**Moral Reasoning**__ 1. Read the situation below and decide how you would respond to each question.

One day George’s older brother, Jake, tells him a secret: Jake is selling drugs. George and Jake both know that the kind of drug Jake is selling is highly addictive and causes lung and brain damage. It can even kill people. George asks his brother to stop selling. But the family is poor, and Jake says he is only doing it to help out with the family’s money problems. Jake asks his younger Brother not to tell anyone.

1. **Should George promise to keep quiet and not to tell on his brother?** (check one)
 * // What should George say or do? //**

should keep quiet should tell can’t decide

2. **What if Jake tells George that selling drugs is no big deal, that plenty of Jake’s friends do it all the time?** (check one)

keep quiet tell can’t decide

3. **George found out that Jake is selling the drug to 10 year-olds outside school? Then what should George do?** (check one)

keep quiet tell can’t decide

4. **What if Jake himself won’t be harmed by the drugs – he tells George he knows how additive and harmful the stuff is and never touches it? Then what should George do?** (check one)

keep quiet tell can’t decide

5. **What if George finds out that Jake isn’t using any of the money at all to “help out the family” but instead is spending it on booze and other things for himself? Then what should George do?** (check one)

keep quiet tell can’t decide

6. **Is it ever right to tell on someone?** (check one)

sometimes right never right   can’t decide 7. **Who’s to blame in this situation?** (check one)

George (younger brother) Jake (drug dealer) Other Can’t decide

8. **How important is it for judges to send drug dealers to jail?** (check one)

very important important   not important