It would appear from the article that there was a Party Official present rhoughout this debacle, and that the local commissars weren’t convinced the teacher was sufficiently contrite during the first two re-education panels. They only offered their approval of her commitment to communism at the third session, after which she resigned.
The methods of the Chinese People’s Cultural Revolution have come to America.
The whole thing reeks of stalinism. It is reminiscent of a scene out of 1984 where Winston, having been broken thru torture, says he loves Big Brother, and then the State puts a bullet in his head.