How Honest Are You?

Bob returns to the basketball locker room for the whistle needed in practice. Don sees Bob searching Ben's pockets and tells the gang that Bob is a thief. At skill practice Coach Barker, in questioning the boys, brings them to realize that jumping at conclusions is dangerous, and that good intentions are not the same as truth., , Analyzes students' understanding of honesty, showing that they don't have much trouble with simple honesty, but in some situations, where honesty is a much deeper problem, complications arise.Coronet Films Sound 10 Minutes Produced by Coronet Films. Educational collaborator: Elizabeth B. Carey, Ph. D., Supervisor, Bureau of Instructional Supervision, the University of the State of New York. Synopsis: When Don sees Bob return to the empty locker room and take something from another boy's locker, he assumes that Bob is stealing. In- stead of talking to Bob or to the principal, he mentions the episode to some classmates and all but one agrees that Bob was stealing. Although the classmates promise Don that they will be quiet about the incident, one of them finally tells the principal. In the discussion that follows, with the principal and the students, Don finds that he had merely put two incidents together and decided that Bob had stolen. It was found that Bob actually had not stolen anything, but had merely returned to the locker room to get a whistle which one of the other players left in his locker. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.