DRACUT, Mass. – The answer’s no longer blowin’ in the wind for Dracut, Massachusetts English teacher Robert Moulton. He’s been fired and banned from ever setting foot on school district property again.

Moulton was terminated for “conduct unbecoming a teacher and insubordination,” according to the Lowell Sun.

The firing was the culmination of a string of incidents involving Moulton, starting with a 7-day suspension in April after the “Bob Dylan-obsessed” teacher read a story called “Song To Bob” to students. The newspaper described the story, which was written by Moulton, as a “vulgarity-laden short story.”

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He admittedly told the students it wasn’t “appropriate for school.” But his students “kept egging” him on to read it, so he gave in to their demands, according to a different story in the Sun.

Concerned about the teacher’s performance, the district then put a paraprofessional in the teacher’s classroom, with instructions to monitor the situation and report back to Dracut High School Principal Richard Manley.

Moulton said he was subjected to “harassment” because he was asked to submit “detailed” lesson plans other teachers weren’t required to file with school leaders, according to the paper.

Moulton objected to his treatment and was fired for insubordination.

He knowingly read inappropriate material to his students and refused to deal cooperatively with the consequences. He asked for it and he got it.

Upon the firing, district Superintendent Steven Stone obtained a restraining order against the teacher and wrote, “…please be advised you are hereby declared a trespasser on any or all property of the Dracut Public School District.”

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Further underscoring his obsession with music, Moulton compared himself to the radical Marxist rock band Rage Against The Machine. “The man against the machine,” was how he described his situation.

Meanwhile, his students are doing their own raging against the so-called machine.

They staged a two-hour “sit in” last week to protest his firing, according to the Sun. And a former student created an online petition calling for Moulton’s reinstatement.

Moulton said he is consider filing for arbitration, with the assistance of his union, the Massachusetts Education Association. Based on previous cases, we suspect such a scenario could lead to his reinstatement or a large financial settlement from the district.

Moulton says he loves his job and plans to return.

“This, right here, is my next step: Awareness. I get to teach film-in-literature this year. I love teaching, I love what I do. When I first went back to get my Master’s degree in English, it was a call to me to teach. I look forward to going into work and teaching every day,” he told the Sun.

“We live on a ball of irony. Earth’s center is liquid iron, and when I think Earth, I think ‘iron, watery.’ And ambiguity is the sky.”

And just think – they fired this guy.