What are The Ideal(s) and Principle(s) related to NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct Principle

What is the description of the dilemma?

2. What are The Ideal(s) and Principle(s) related to NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct Principle?

3. A ethical response to the constituent to whom the response is needed is accurately identified and 

justified?

4. What’s The best solution based on the principle?

THE DILEMMA 

Four-year-old Victor enjoys playing dress up in the dramatic play area. He is a quiet and 

reserved child who usually follows other children’s lead. But when engaging in dramatic play, 

Victor’s leadership shines as he collaboratively creates scenarios with his classmates. He is 

particularly adept at playing characters such as firemen, princesses, bumblebees, and moms. One 

day, Mr. Jackson, Victor’s father, who rarely comes to the center, arrives to pick up Victor and 

sees that he is in a pink princess costume. He curtly tells Marge, Victor’s teacher, that he does 

not want her to allow Victor to play in the dress-up area in the future. He then orders Victor to 

change, and they quickly leave. 

Marge is taken aback by Mr. Jackson’s behavior.

The center is devoted to fostering relationships with all of its families, and Marge has recently 

made great strides in attracting Victor’s family to potlucks and school workdays. The staff 

collectively believe that in addition to building children’s imaginations, dramatic play enhances 

their social and communication skills and is an integral part of the learning process that gives 

children opportunities to develop abstract thinking, literacy, math, and social studies skills.

What should Marge, the ethical teacher, do?