He didn't mention anyone specific, so it is only your bias that is showing.
I wonder if he’d have gotten fired if he’d have mentioned Seabolt’s enormous moobs instead?
I was a special ed student in the 1080s. we did not have state testing but one of the worst experience I had in high school was from a teacher that talked openly in front of us about how stupid we were. it was so bad rather then taking the remedial class that he was teaching I transferred out of his class to a regular class. The idiot on the day I transferred proceeded to tell me how much smarter I was then the other students in the class. This was in front of the other students in the class. I went on to take the other class and barely pass with a D grade. my point is that he teacher in spouting off his belief in the inferiority of his students was doing real damage to those in his class that were struggling.....I can understand the teacher feeling this way and voicing his concerns to other teachers,administrators and to the parents of the children he is teaching but not to his students.