OrangePhilosophy

I fail to see how arguing that the law should be changed amounts to advocating that people should break the law while it's in effect (or any indication that he would have used corporal punishment in violation of the law, which seems to be what they concluded would necessarily happen). Whoever made the decision to fire him is an idiot. I don't know whether it was a legal firing, but it certainly wasn't morally justifed.

His expulsion seems legal, but you think being fired from the substitute teaching job might not be. If it is legal to fire him, I think it is in the best interest of parent-fearing school administrators to do so. (You can imagine the flyers and posters, angry mobs of parents that don't want educators to crank down on their child behind) Alas, Jeremy, you are on point. Not all things that are in our best interest are moral.

I think his being expelled and being fired are immoral. I'm not sure of the legality of either. The argument for doing so seems to rely on a fallacy anyway, so I'm not sure it's really in society's best interest to begin with.

It turns out they haven't actually fired him yet. They've suspended him pending further evaluation. Le Moyne has expelled him, though.

I guess the whole problem started from the paper he wrote on corporal punishment. (that's what it says on the news). My guess is, there is more to the issue regarding his expulsion, and the suspension is just a PR type of response (like when Dr. Elders was forced to resign her post--She got yanked around in my opinion). Personally, I think some corporal punishment is helpful for children, but that this is a decision to be made (carefully) by parents. And it still might be considered illegal to do so in many contexts. In the classroom, I think, there are much better ways of disciplining youngsters (which are seldom exercised for whatever reasons). So far as society's best interest goes, I think our society would be better off if people weren't getting mugged by teenagers on the hill.