Now the public is aware of her teaching
skills.
I don't know what her level of competence is within her field, but she should divide it from the obviously personal and subjective use in class. I've always believed a teacher can't be as effective as a partisan UNLESS he or she can accept and encourage contrary notions and put the people who have them at ease within the academic environment--all but impossible except at the graduate level.
I was speaking to the law and/or rules the student agrees to abide by when he enrolls, not how either of us feel about what she said. If it's against policy then he's violating his word on the point. If it's in a jurisdiction that forbids one sided recordings then he's in violation of the law.
Off that point, I think some of what she said was idiotic, but I wouldn't characterize her actions as evil, only infantile and knee-jerk.
He will be subject to discipline when he comes up against a Leftist
Shouldn't factor into it. It's simpler and about the rules or law and his word in relation to it.
You all value freedom of speech as long as the speech agrees with you.
I'm not a plurality and I value the right to have, hold and express opinion. The opinions expressed? It varies. I've read things I differed with that impressed me and heard people argue for points of agreement in a way that disheartened me. So I'll defend the Klan's right to speak and my right to lampoon, decry and oppose what they're saying.
But this isn't really about that.
In this instance I'm disagreeing with the practice of the teacher, as well as a few of her zealot's drum rolls. And I'm disagreeing with the response by the student, who had available to him any number of private means to address legitimate concerns. She's acting inappropriately as a professional and overreaching into the personal in a way that seems unlikely to prompt real discourse and considered difference, stifling the point of a classroom. He's using her error to make hay while pretending to be cowed by her conduct, which he obviously isn't. You can't lament your intimidation while publicly stating you won't back down on a point.
Well, he can, but it's almost as idiotic an effort as the professor's train of thought past the point of derailment. So both are playing politics with the moment and I find their conduct as needless as it is pointlessly divisive.
Freedom of Speech
"Truth is hate to those who hate the truth." ~ Bob Enyart Mk 9:41, 13:7, 25:8, 40, Dan 10:13, Ps 105:15, Ro 14:4, Mk 6:11, Is 45:24, 54:17, Re 12:10, 12, Jud 1:9 
I'm getting almost as tired of these staged public outrages as I am of the people who give them the excuse.
