Seniors attended the annual senior ethics day at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, Nov. 20.
Seniors had to dress business professional and arrive at 7:15 a.m. Name badges were filled out, and students were directed to go to tables that matched the number on the badge.
First students traded numbers so they everybody could sit with their friends. Little did they know, they wouldn’t be sitting together after all.
Each student was placed in a group with seven other students. The students in each group were introduced to each other and their adult group leader.
Students in each group went through five sessions. Of the five, three involved court cases. During the first and second meetings, people gave information about connections and becoming an Organ Donor.
In connections students saw and discussed movie clips where people were put in tough ethical situations because of relationships they had with other people.
In the third room an extremely emotional court case was acted out.
Most of the students cried through the acting of the case because the actor was just so emotional. She even had the boys tearing up.
“The ethics day scenario dealing with the car crash was a sad story,” senior Sania Shaffi said. “It could teach a good lesson about drinking and driving as well as having a certain amount of self-control so you don’t put yourself and others in a harmful situation.”
The actor touched every single person in that room and made a connection with them.
“The topics were interesting and it was cool listening to everyone’s opinion of the ethics situations,” senior Rachel Giordano said.
When it came down to the tables of students agreeing on a guilty or non-guilty verdict, they had much trouble. Something about the defendant in the cases just made everybody feel so bad for her.
“In the case with the car crash you have to understand it’s difficult to make a drastic decision like that, especially when you can imagine being in her shoes,” senior Chadia King said. “Of course a lot of us realized that she could have taken other precautions to avoid the accident, but at the same time you had to take everything else into consideration.”
Ethics day went very well this year. The students were taught that anything might happen in life, depending on your moral choices and/or your actions.