Thread drift, but relevant thread drift: Nuremberg Principles - see VI and VII. To sum up, no matter who give the orders, if they are criminal you are criminal if you obey them.

Bureaucrats in the education system don't have quite such a tough duty to follow. But they've still got a duty to resist injustice.

Reading that report it looks pretty clear that this School Superintendent Gene Buinger is playing politics, and using this young man as an instrument without any regard for his interests. I thought The Simpsons was a comical exaggeration of what actually happens in small town America. This story suggests it's close to the truth. It's a Simpsons plotline.