Teacher's form of Democracy

Ängelholm,

I came across this article on "The Local". It's called "Teachers ask pupils to name 'most trying' classmate". A teacher in the city of Angelholm asked her students to write and submit the name of their choice of the most trying classmate and that the results would be given to the parents at a parent meeting. The parents were appalled and the teacher was prevented from giving the results. The parents reported it to the school inspection service and the principal said that he had not been fully informed about the situation and stated that he wants to hear the teachers version first and why she did it before he says anything else. My question is, is this ethically and morally right? What was the purpose of this exercise? I feel like this would just lower the self-esteem of the other students and feel like they have to be objected to perfection. On the other hand, they wouldn't probably feel all that bad because there is only one "winner" whom they chose. We as Americans are already used to this type of "democracy" so it falls into norms in our society. We all vote for a president for our country, a homecoming queen for our school, or even an innocent person by trial by jury, there is always a winner. Maybe they are just not used to this form of government which makes it a bigger deal to them. What is your opinion? Do you think this teacher had the right intentions or not?

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