Sought-after elementary magnet schools

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Scenario: You are veteran principal assigned to lead one of the most sought-after elementary magnet schools in the district. The school serves a diverse student population in pre-kindergarten through grade 5. The majority of students are from high-income households; however, 25 percent of seats are mandated for low-income neighborhood students. The school has one empty seat available designated for a low-income neighborhood student to reach its seating capacity by October of the current school year. A parent from outside of the district contacted you to enroll their child at your school. The parent is related to a political individual in your locality. You explained to the parent that enrollment is at capacity and that the parent needed to contact the district superintendent regarding any procedures for out-of-district students to enroll in schools, as well as any requirements for getting on the waitlist for future seats at the school. You received a call from the superintendent’s executive assistant that the political leader asked the superintendent to make an exception and enroll the out-of-district student in the third-grade classroom where the vacant seat exits. The vacant seat is held to meet the 25 percent low-income student threshold. The executive assistant asked you to prepare a written response to the parent, including a courtesy copy to the superintendent and the political leader.

Write a 250- to 300-word letter to the parent in response to this ethical dilemma. Incorporate at least 2 of the ethical categories of character from Ch. 3 of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow in your response.
Wisdom and knowledge—cognitive strengths entailing the acquisition and use of knowledgeCourage—an emotional strength involving the exercise of will to accomplish goals in the face of opposition, external or internalHumanity—an interpersonal strength that involve tending to and befriending othersJustice—a civic strength underlying healthy community lifeTemperance—a strength protecting against excessTranscendence—a strength that forges connections to the larger universe and provides meaning

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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