[Pollster1]

It’s a shame Professor Panagiotis Ipeirotis mishandled this so badly. He should have stood up proudly for what he did, explained why the kids were better off being caught now than continuing to think their behavior was acceptable, and said he did the right thing and that ethics mattered more than pay (because character does matter more than dollars). As the whine was stated in his blog, he was implicitly endorsing their conduct when he implied that the effect on his pay mattered more than the underlying values, just as the students believed the effect on their grade mattered more than honor.

[Hoffer Rand]

... ethics mattered more than pay (because character does matter more than dollars).

Thank you. I concur.

[thefactor]

What you said is exactly right. He should have said that doing the right thing is more important than money, and he had exposed a flaw in both the students and the school.

Those students should be absolutely ashamed and the school should have given him a pass on the lower eval scores. There is more than one side to every story, but I'm with the professor as of now.