Discussion Questions: On the Line
3/17/2010
1.
What would you have done if you had been the supervisor in the story?
2.
What would you have done if you had been one of the neighbors who was called?
3.
What do you think could be done to keep the situation from happening again?
4.
Who would you prefer yourself to be: A person who likes to help people, like the
supervisor, or a person who doesn’t like to get involved with others’ business, like Mrs.
Washington’s first neighbor? And why?
5.
Were the people at the hospital right in not sending an ambulance? Explain.
6.
Do you agree with the system that the hospital can send out an ambulance only when
they receive a direct call from the people in need? Why or why not?
7.
What would the story be next? Would the ambulance come to rescue the little girl? What
emergency did Mrs. Thomas realized?
8.
Was this call real? Was it a hoax? Did this emergency actually happen?