Should teacher know who has AIDS and y or y not?

Question

This is just options the one who gets closest I will give them 10 points.

Answer 1

I think teachers are on a need to know basis, and unless the student's education is affected by the illness - then no.

Answer 2

No, not until absolutely necessary like if that person gets cut or injured in a way that causes bleeding....No matter how educated some people are there are still stigmas to having HIV/AIDS. You won't know if this person has unresolved issues about the disease until you tell them, and then they may treat you differently which would possibly change the way you are treated, your grades, even whether you are allowed to play sports. So no, my answer is no......

Answer 3

Legally, a person who has AIDS does not have to tell anyone because of the obvious....discrimination. I think a few moral issues need to be incorporated into the Law, eg, if you know someone is being irresponsible in their sex life and you know they have AIDS, we should be able to expose them because they could go on and kill thousands, but the Law is protecting them. If a person is practicing safe sex, I still think it is their responsibility to tell their partner anyway. Teacher needing to know.....thats pretty difficult.....and depending on what she is teaching it varies. If she was a sports teacher, I think she should because if the person carrying the virus hurts themselves, then she would not only be exposing herself to infection herself, but other pupils could be infected as well. Its a very difficult question to answer actually....the legal versus the moral is always hard to answer.

Remember the Olympic diver who had an accident in the pool. He dived off the high board and hit the board underneath which caused a nasty injury and he bled heaps in the pool. No-one knew he was HIV positive, but he came out and told people years later he was, and all other people who were in that pool freaked out because of the amount of blood in the pool.

There will always be divided ideas on this issue, but for me personally, I would like to know if the person I am sitting next to, or am teaching has a potentially killer desease, not to discriminate against them, just to protect myself in the event I could be exposed to the virus they were carrying. If a person injures themselves it is common practice to wear gloves anyway, so I guess my arguement could be torn down in flames anyway.

I am more knowledgeable than most on the issue on the spreading of AIDS, and I know you cannot contract it without having direct contact with their bodily fluids, and you would have to drink a glass of their saliva to get the disease....eating off a contaminated persons plate, or brushing up against them will not give another person AIDS, but there are still a lot of uneducated people still out there, and I guess thats why the Law was implemented...to protect people from uneducated people. But even with my education, I think I would still like to know right or wrong.

Answer 4

1) HIV is not a very contagious disease. There's basically no way a teacher could contract it from a student in a normal classroom setting.

2) HIV is a disease with a lot of stigma. Many people have been discriminated against, ostracized, ridiculed, and even killed over having HIV. Because of this, it's important to protect the privacy of people with HIV. The more people you inform of a person's HIV status, the harder this becomes.

Given those two facts, telling teachers when they have HIV positive students is not only unnecessary, it's potentially dangerous to the students.

Answer 5

I do not think it is necessary for a teacher to know if someone has HIV or AIDS. For the average school you should always use general safety precautions of you come in contact with blood, such as gloves and whatever their policy is for cleaning up spills.

Answer 6

Yes. It may be necessary for the teacher to render first aid and they need to know if they need to take any special precautions.

Answer 7

WIll knowing who has AIDS help the teacher do her job better? If not, she should concentrate on things that will.

Answer 8

no they don't need to know, but if you are at the aids state i am sure that you will not be able or feel to much like going to school.