Being Reprimanded Or Punished?

Before the first grade, we moved around a few times before ending up here in Sylvania. As a child, both my parents worked full time jobs and I was always at after school day cares or at my grandparents houses, never really got to spend a lot of time with friends or was able to socialize with many people. So growing up most of my time was spent with my brother and I thought nothing of it. As I grew up I began to realize that I had become stuck in some bad habits. My brother and I weren't asked to help around the house much but when we were we never listened. But to my surprise there were no consequences for our disobedience. At the time I thought I had it good. Around the time I got too middle school I began to realize the problem. I began

In elementary school I realized that I needed to make my decisions on my own and strive to become a better

Sympathy is an extension of empathic concern, or the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. Sympathy must be given and received in order for the world to operate because all humans make mistakes that impact other people’s lives. The Reprimand is a short “phone play” written by Jane Anderson in 2000. The two characters, Rhona and Mim, have a confrontation about what Rhona believes to be an inappropriate remark during a meeting. In The Reprimand, Mim deserves the most sympathy from the audience because Rhona intentionally manipulates her into believing she is not respected by her male co-workers.

Like every other thirteen year old, I was curious about many things in my teenage life. Many factors came into play in this maturing stage that would create the beginning to who I will later become in the future. This was also the point in time where most of my actions weren’t too intelligent and led to necessary punishments. Although I made many mistakes in my early years, I have managed to learn from every one of them. I can still recall the day were I committed a wrong doing that was followed by an influential punishment. It all occurred in 7th grade, at the middle school I attended.

At the time, my sister, Marsha, and I wanted to live in the small town we grew-up in; therefore, we resided with my Dad for several years. We were teenagers by then and realistically needed a great deal of discipline; unfortunately, for us, with Dad’s party side and being divorced, he remained gone the majority of the time. Unsupervised, like various other teens, we appeared at times unruly. Nearly all my relatives and the majority of the town looked on disapprovingly.

When punishment is only justified as a response to moral fault, obstinate questions may arise as to the justification of punishment. This is what this piece seek to critically assess as it takes the stand that punishment is justifiable when it is a response to moral fault. There are many definitions of punishment as there are many philosophers and how they view punishment. However a few definitions are accepted and well-known worldwide. Punishment is some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court . The body of this piece is divided into three parts in which the first part will discuss the theories and philosophies of retributivism. The second part will discuss my view on the topic, “The Justification of Punishment as a Response to Moral Fault”. The last part however will discuss and contrast retributivism to consequentialism.

As the first child/grandchild in my family, I was let loose, free to do whatever I felt like doing since my family had no experience. My parents, who met right out of high school, barely made it through school and were not ready to have me at such a young age. They split only months after I was born and passed me between the two every few days. Never being around other children, they assumed I was on the “right path” when it came to my education or just general knowledge of the world around me. However, as I entered first grade, realization struck my family after the first parent teacher conference. During which, Mrs. Hunter explained that I was far behind the rest of the class and was in utter shock of how I passed kindergarten. After hearing this, my aunt stepped in and, although she

Another key reason that “there actions were foolish and immature so they should of been punished

I always had a creative knack with the pen and created stories which my teachers would rave over. My first piece that drew the attention of an elder was a story of a clown in my third grade class. My teacher’s name was Mrs. Brennan. In Mrs. Brennan’s class we had an assignment in which we had to draw a disfigured clown and then match it with a story to describe the life story of the clown, when the day came that the assignment was due, I did not have mine and Mrs. Brennan was extremely angry, improvidently, I found it in myself to disregard the fact that my work was past the deadline and work at my own pace. After about two days Mrs. Brennan notified my parents that I had not turned in the project and test weighted assignment. My parents asked me about the paper and I told them that I was still working on it, and after about a week it turned into a big deal. My parents scheduled a conference with Mrs. Brennan to see what was going on with my lack of initiative and productivity in the class, little did they know, this was quite the opposite of what was going on. When we arrived at the meeting, both my parents and Mrs. Brennan glared at me with extremely stern and disapproving faces, I howbeit had a large grin on my face, which infuriated both parties more and more as each minute of silence passed. Then finally my mom exclaimed, “Well what do you have to say for yourself?” I then pulled a

My parents had a lot of confusion about why I was so bright but would not write anything. I forgot assignments, almost never turned in homework so consequently, failed to perform in class. I

The least that might happen in these circumstances is to receive a formal reprimand or “write up” placed in their human resources file. In each of these instances, personnel were in danger of losing their job and a majority of them did. The teachers who did not lose their job received formal written disciplinary letters placed in their personnel file. A few of these personnel ended up having to make restitution to the district. In addition to losing their job, a few of them had their certification suspended, and in one case the teacher received a lifetime revocation of his certification and served jail

It was a cold and cloudy winter day, and I had just hopped off the bus in front of my house. I knew my mother was inside and as soon as I entered those doors I knew she would ask for my behavior report. I wanted to watch TV and play video games so I was going to do it. I was going to lie, saying that I had not gotten in trouble, but allow me to rewind. Back in kindergarten, my teacher kept track of each person’s behavior for the day using a paper printout of a traffic light, and each person had a clothespin with his or her name on it pinned to the traffic light. Everyday everyone started with his or her clothespin on green, but if someone misbehaved that kid’s clothespin got moved to yellow; those who continued to disobey were moved to red. At the end of the day, the teacher would send home a behavior report stating if the child behaved and stayed on green or if they got moved to yellow, or red, and why. So my mother, being the wonderful parent she is, did not allow me to use anything electronic (watch TV, play video games, etc.) if I was moved to yellow. While I was never moved to red, I still managed to land on yellow about once a week. Now the stage is set for me to change my behavior report, all I had to do was wait for the perfect

When I was growing up back in Saudi Arabia around the ages of 8 to 14 I did not have many friends who they were living near me, and the closest family members who were my age group were my cousins who lived more than 30 miles away from where my house was, because of this I spent a lot of time indoors and during this time I was playing a lot of video games. However, I envied the high school teams that they played in my area. My parents did not like this very much and they were very concerned about my behaviour. For example, even when we went out to the malls would always have my game boy with me and instead of interacting with

When I reached elementary school, my mother never cared very much about my attendance. In the negligent fashion that I became accustomed to, poor grades or failure to turn in assignments also held no consequences for me. Despite my bad attendance and the lack of parental authority in my early education, it was soon evident that I was academically gifted; I enjoyed learning and my grades had already begun to surpass

The grievant asserted that the reprimand was not issued in a timely manner; however, management concluded that the timeliness of the reprimand was consistent in conducting a thorough investigation. As such, Article 23 of the contract does not specify a specific timeline to complete an investigation or initiate an adverse action. Therefore, the claim of untimeliness is