This teacher is in some serious need of some discipline, and I’m sure it’s in the pipe.
That said, this fragile flower that needed to be counseled and calmed afterwards is going to have a very difficult time in life. By 17, she should be beyond being so emotinally labile.
Yep - her own fault - yep
NOT
It isn't easy to be the lone voice trapped in a hostile, environment, being denigrated by the authority figure with no backup from the others in the class who should have stood up for her and their own values - there must have been a few others who held Christian values. AT least she had the guts to speak up - The others were "emotionally labile"