Please select the best answer : Matt is a hall monitor for his middle school. In general, Matt values rules: they maintain order create expectations, and make things fair for most people. One day, while patrolling the halls during his service period, Matt hears Annie using her cellphone in the bathroom. When Annie emerges from the bathroom, Matt approaches her and asks for a hall pass. Annie explains that she does not have a hall pass because her father had a medical issue this morning and she arrived late to school. Seeing that it was only 1 0 minutes before the next bell, she decided to call her grandmother in the bathroom to explain the family's situation rather than get yelled at by her teacher for missing most of class. Matt feels conflicted , but quickly decides to ignore the infraction and not issue Annie a citation. He knows he can get in trouble for not applying the hall monitor rules uniformly but he feels this situation is different: Annie has extenuating circumstances . It would clearly benefit her emotional welfare if he does not contribute to her stress for the day.Please select the best answer : Matt is a hall monitor for his middle school. In general, Matt values rules: they maintain order create expectations, and make things fair for most people. One day, while patrolling the halls during his service period, Matt hears Annie using her cellphone in the bathroom. When Annie emerges from the bathroom, Matt approaches her and asks for a hall pass. Annie explains that she does not have a hall pass because her father had a medical issue this morning and she arrived late to school. Seeing that it was only 1 0 minutes before the next bell, she decided to call her grandmother in the bathroom to explain the family's situation rather than get yelled at by her teacher for missing most of class. Matt feels conflicted , but quickly decides to ignore the infraction and not issue Annie a citation. He knows he can get in trouble for not applying the hall monitor rules uniformly but he feels this situation is different: Annie has extenuating circumstances . It would clearly benefit her emotional welfare if he does not contribute to her stress for the day.
Using Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development, Matt's reasoning for his choice in this situation is most consistent with which of the following stages?
Answers:
a) Stage 5: The social-contract orientation
b) Stage 2: Instrumental-relativist orientation
c) Stage 4: The "law-and-order orientation"
d) Stage 3: Interpersonal concordance/The good boy-good girl orientation