A BC teacher has been suspended and disciplined for permitting their class to engage in “extremely inappropriate conduct” with a student.
The matter is laid out in a summary of the consent resolution between the teacher and the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, which was published this week.
According to the summary, the name of the teacher, the school district and the school are not named to “protect the identity of students who were harmed, abused or exploited by the teacher.”
“To further protect the identity of the students involved and to avoid further harm to them, the more concerning details of the teacher’s conduct are not included in this summary,” the two-page decision says.
After the incident happened the district issued the teacher a letter of discipline and suspended them for three days without pay.
The school district also ordered the teacher to complete the Reinforcing Respectful Professional Boundaries course, through the Justice Institute of BC.
Later, the teacher entered into a consent resolution agreement with the Commissioner and agreed to a two-day suspension and to complete the district-ordered course by Mar. 31, 2024.
The commission says the teacher “failed to model appropriate behaviour expected of an educator” and their conduct showed a lack of understanding of appropriate professional boundaries, the summary says.
