Valerie mentioned in her post that she thinks the chapter on Ethics is all common sense. In most ways I agree with her but the problem is that common sense simply doesn't exist or everyone. We all know (or hopefully all know) how to protect ourselves and our students from innappropriate situations and yet you see things all the time where a teacher simply did something stupid in a moment of passion (I'm not talking physical passion, but emotional) and yelled at a kid or said something stupid that ends up destroying their career. It's scary how simple it is to screw up in the teaching world. Hopefully we will all be able to keep our heads on straight and not make any mistakes, but I can see how easy it would be sometimes to mess up. Fortunately we have other teachers to fall back on and ask advice. Students are essentially good kids in my opinion, so I hope I can manage to stay calm in all situations, over all I once again enjoyed the reading, but I just finished my Unit plan and don't feel like writing anything else, so that's the end of my post.