DIRECTIONS: Read carefully the given case.During the first two weeks of the semester, a female dean's lister student wrote a complaint against her teacher through a blog. In her account, the teacher keeps on belittling them in their class. He's putting them down as belonging to a particular course and that he says they're just good at handling the ladle, but they do not possess any reasoning at all. The teacher has done this throughout the whole two weeks of their class meeting. The student even said many negative words against the teacher.When the college dean of the student read her blog, he texted the dean of the teacher concerned and informed him about it and the complaint of the student. The teacher's dean made a decision right away. He called the attention of the teacher, informed him about the complaint on a blog and told the teacher at that very moment he would no longer hold his class and was terminated from work.QUESTIONS:1. Do you think the decision of the teacher's dean is valid? If yes, why? And if no, why not?2. Do you consider using a blog as basis to terminate anyone in a position, such as a faculty, valid? Defend your answer.3. What specific ethical principle/ theory supports your answer? Explain.

The decision of the teachers dean is not valid. It is erroneous and improper, in fact, it is outright unlawful on the part of the teachers dean to terminate the teacher from employment without any due process whatsoever. Basically, due process requires that the teacher be notified of the ground/s relied upon in the complaint against him, that he be given an opportunity to explain his side, and that an investigation on the matter be conducted, taking into consideration the circumstances, facts, evidence and proofs available to the parties. The aforementioned are indispensable requirements of due process the purpose of which is to ensure the protection of ones employment. It bears emphasis that in our jurisdiction, the right to ones employment is part and parcel of the right to property enshrined in the Bill of Rights found in the Philippine Constitution. This right cannot simply be trampled with without legal repercussions.

With respect the use of a blog as basis for termination of an employment, such is likewise not valid. A blog is an online personal journal which reveals the authors reflections, opinions, beliefs, and subjective observations. Thus, the students blog should be considered as her own personal domain where she is free to opine and speak out her mind curtailed only by her own ethical considerations and moral standards. As such, the blog cannot be used as sole basis of termination of employment as it lacks the necessary facts, evidence and proofs required therefor.

Rights and justice. The actions of the teachers dean in the given case violated the ethical principles of rights and justice. Rights are defined by society and protected by the government, and as such, they cannot simply be trifled with. Indeed, every right has a corresponding duty or obligation to uphold such right. In the given case, inasmuch as the teacher has the right to his employment, the teachers dean likewise has the corresponding obligation to respect such right. Further, as his position requires, the teachers dean also has the duty to act with circumspection and prudence in handling the matter. His actions should have been fair, reasonable, and objective in order to afford justice to everyone concerned.