Discuss these cases:
Case 1:
“At 10 a.m. on March 15, 1,000 students walked out of Stuyvesant High School in New York City to protest gun violence in the U.S. An hour later, 2,800 filed out of Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago. An hour after that, 1,000 went to the capitol in Boise, Idaho. And an hour after that, 1,000 walked out of Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, with signs that read “Am I next?”.
Retrieved from: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/students-across-the-country-walk-out-to-protest-gun-violence-2018-03-14 (Links to an external site.)
Students are required to go to school; schools can discipline them for missing class — for example, in a walkout.
Van Petegem, Beyers, Vansteenkiste, and Soenens (2012) suggest that adolescents who establish a healthy sense of autonomy accept responsibility for their choices and actions (in Steinberg, 2019, p. 239). Where do we draw the line on providing autonomy to adolescents so they can grow as mature adults? After reading this week’s chapter on autonomy, as a team, discuss: do parents have the right to tell the students to stay in school instead of a walkout? What about the school? Can schools legally punish the students? Who should have more autonomy in this case?
Cite your work whenever possible.
Case 2:
A 17-year-old high schooler got pregnant. Discuss who should have the autonomy to decide what to do. I want you to really think of all the possible choices. Some possible scenarios:
If she wanted to keep her baby, or if she wanted to have an abortion, or if she wanted to give birth to the baby and give it away.
What if her parents have different opinions than hers (for example: if she wants to abort, the parents are against it, or vice versa).
What about her boyfriend. What if he wants to keep it, abort it, or waive his legal right as the child’s father and his opinion contradicts hers or her parents.
Who should have autonomy in this case? Keep in mind that she was 17 when this happened. Justify your answer but be sure to support it using the textbook or any other RELIABLE sources and cite it.
Case 3
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/08/murder-or-self-defense-bresha-meadows.html
This is another case in which a young teenager (14 years old) decided to kill her stepfather while he was sleeping. Bresha claimed that her stepfather “brutally beat her mother and terrorized her family for years.”
Should Bresha be charged as an adult or as a child? Why? Can you justify your answer? Don’t just agree with your team members; you can also be the devil’s advocate and keep digging so you will get a quality discussion.
Finally, discuss this dilemma:
A 17-year-old girl was severely punished by her parents when they were informed that she planned to have an abortion.
A 14-year-old girl tried as an adult for murdering her abusive stepfather.
Why is it that the 17-year-old girl could not make this personal choice for herself because she was considered a minor, but the 14-year-old girl, who is younger, is being treated as an adult?
Make sure that you support your answer using the textbook chapter 9 and cite it using proper APA.
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