While it is likely against school policies, and may cost this teacher his or her job, it is not likely ILLEGAL (meaning against the law) for the teacher to have called a student a judgmental name. The first amendment to the US Constitution protects our right to free speech. It does not however, require our employers to put up with our bad choices in what we say.
Now, if it is a public school (state sanctioned), then the teacher may not make any discriminatory statements based upon race, creed, religion, national origin, etc. That would in fact likely be illegal. I am interested in specifically what this teacher said in order to provide further thoughts here.
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