And if you CAN'T terminate because of admitted emotional grading, the system is too tightly captured by outside interests to the detriment of the client: the student and society.

A teacher is a professional entrusted with the most important responsibility society can offer: training and educating the next generation. It must adhere to the highest of professional standards and expectations.

That we don't pay enough to require that without reserve is a statement on our societal priorities, and disconnected from the expectations that should hold.

EDIT: clarification/word choice

There's a certain irony in your outrage at his failure to control his emotions, even as your own rage leads you to dream of hurting his family.

>That’s grounds for termination to me. Seriously. I would put this man out of a job and endanger the livelihood of him and his family for this kind of shit.

Agreeing with you as a former instructor (who left academia for greener fields after completing the PhD).

I've had people cry on me in office hours because they come out with — quite literally — PTSD from instructors like the one we're discussing.

It's nothing short of psychological abuse of children, and it leaves lifelong damage.

It's worse than no instruction at all. I've had to have college kids unlearn things before I could teach them.

We've got to draw a line somewhere. I draw the line at actively traumatizing children.

That person should not be allowed to teach, period. We'd do both their students as well as themselves a huge favor by removing them from teaching.

By all indications, they'd be a happier person doing something else, where they wouldn't be driven "mad" by seeing that they've done a good job — which, for a teacher, means their students being proficient in the subject they teach.

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TL;DR: this teacher was driven "mad" by seeing that he's done a good job, and one of his students was really good in the subject.

Spare them from this pain.