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yes, fired = good.
as for the question about where to draw the line, in my opinion, of course you don't want your teachers to be souless automatons (although it's getting tougher to individualize the material these days, but that's another matter). Funny thing, however, when I was in high school, I don't think that I ever once had a teacher take out ten minutes of class on a regular basis to tell me anything about their private lives, much less to give me a bible thumpin'. I grew up in S.C., so Bible Belt country all the way. Yet, somehow, over the course of an entire year + hall run-ins over another three, I still seemed to have gotten to know all of my teachers about as well as I wanted to. I wouldn't really care if it was, for example NASCAR or football or soccer or the fluctuations in the international gold market, I would still say it's inappropriate to waste that kind of time on a regular basis...I'm no psychologist, but that's a little OC for me. I think it's a little worse, however, when it is religion (or sexual preference, or politics, or whatever) because of course those subjects are quite likely to make students uncomfortable.
The other thought I had when I was reading the article was trying to imagine how much shit this guy would have taken from students in his class, during class, if he had done this at the high school I went to? I mean, where are the smartass 17 year olds when you need them? Lambs to the slaughter...
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