Not really enough information to make a solid assessment of the situation. The kid has passion, yet insubordination is no way to fight for his cause. Bringing in a parent and speaking with the principle/ dean might be better served (looks like high school).
Not saying all children should be molded into sheeple, just the constant erosion of social decorum is frustrating.
There are some bright kids out there, but some mistake access to knowledge (internet) with actual knowledge (reading and comprehension). To me the teacher sounds like she deals with this type of outbursts quite often, and is tired.
I know that it's easy to roll with the conventional wisdom on the 'Net, and teaching is one of those professions, like another practiced by many here, of which everyone has an opinion, having been taught at one point or another. People are trying to judge the teacher based on a 1:27 video clip of unfortunate interaction with the student after he was ejected from the class. Moreover, they're making the kid out to be a hero. What happened before this point is strictly hearsay. As the above poster noted, the teacher seems like she might be tired of dealing with an argumentative student and she definitely seems to be avoiding escalation, which is good classroom management. Buying into a debate with a loud, disrespectful student perched on the doorsill while the rest of the class is attempting to take a test is entirely counterproductive. I've heard that this is an 18 year old who was taking classes in a regular diploma program alongside more typical sophomore students, having quit in his freshman year, and then returned. In a follow-up interview on a radio station with the student, he used the expression "engage with" in describing what he thinks proper teaching practice, something which almost sounds coached, to me. I can't help but think that he would really have been better served in a GED program.
To those people who state that "pass 'em out and collect 'em at the door" is a heartless endeavor, I agree with you, but make the observation that in some schools, and in some classrooms, such an arrangement is the only way that some students can be brought to task, let alone allow the teacher to get through their day without hitting the bottle at the end of it. When you're trying to teach a language to 16 year old high school freshmen who will be lucky to be 20 year old high school seniors, and elementary school and junior high haven't managed to give them an inkling of what the words "noun" and "verb" mean, it can be pretty tough. Try a class of 33 students where at least five of them are either returning from or have been subject to prior adjudication into lock-down facilities for criminal transgressions (I had one junior drug dealer try to bribe me with $100 to mark him present, pass him, and forget his face), and three-quarters of them lack adequate adult supervision at home. If twenty or twenty-five such kids in such a classroom are only there for entertainment, discipline become a pressing chore, and more preferable methods of instruction (discourse, followed by checks for understanding, followed by assisted practice, homework, and then different levels of evaluation) become difficult, sometimes to the point of impossibility. I've used alternative teaching methods that tried to engage both bored learners and desk mushrooms, but class can't always be "bangin," and students have to take some responsibility for opening up to the material and being able to repeat it and then synthesize it into their knowledge base.
If the student in the video really wants an education
in the manner in which he wants it, given the viral nature of the video, I'm sure that accommodations to his preferred modalities (what we call methods of instruction) will be made. I wish him luck, but I would also hope that the next time he takes exception with the conduct of a class that he remove himself and report to the office to speak with an administrator in a calm and rational fashion.