Question

You have some concerns about one of the students in your class. You have a good friend who is a faculty member in the English Department, and you ask him to come to your private office to talk about the student. About 10 minutes into the conversation, you turn toward the door and see the specific student standing in your office doorway. Obviously, she has been listening to the conversation for a while. Have any legal or ethical rights of the student been breached? What would you do next?

Answer 1

Everyone has the right to have privacy and their information to be confidential with the concerned person or professional who know it. This is also applicable for a student.Here being a faculty member instead of discussing this with the particular student ,there is no necessity to talk or discuss with a colleague. The staff should have addressed this to a superior person in the school and got suggestion. The second option is to have the student anonymously in the discussion over there .Though the conversation happened in private office it the carelessness which led the student to overhear .Therefore this is a breach of student rights. In these situations it is better to call the concerned student and discuss about a problem and solve the concern and help them with their academics.