A B.C. high school teacher has agreed to a two-day teaching certificate suspension after admitting to professional misconduct involving boundary violations with students.
Kurtis Michael Johnston Raue entered into a consent resolution agreement with B.C.’s commissioner for teacher regulation on Aug. 18. The agreement says the misconduct happened during the 2024-25 school year.
According to the document, Raue allowed students who were supposed to be in another class to stay in his classroom while he was teaching.
The agreement says Raue did not tell the other students’ teachers they were in his classroom, and their presence distracted the students who were properly in his class.
The document also says Raue spoke with students about dating and made comments about students’ appearance and romantic relationships.
According to the agreement, “Raue gave Student A dating advice and told them that they and Student B would ‘make a good couple’ and that they should meet Student B.”
The agreement says Raue also “told Student B that Student A might like them.”
In another incident, the document says Raue “commented on a hickey on Student A’s neck and on their romantic partner’s neck.”
The agreement says that when Student A complained they would never find a romantic partner, “Raue complimented Student A by saying Student A is pretty and has a natural look.”
The document also says Raue “commented in class that Student C looks mature for their age.”
Raue was employed at the time as a high school teacher by School District No. 43 in Coquitlam.
The district reported Raue to the commissioner on April 23, 2025.
The district disciplined Raue in June 2025 by suspending him for 21 days without pay.
The suspension ran from June 2 to June 27, 2025.
The district also required him to complete a course called “Reinforcing Respective Boundaries” through the Justice Institute of British Columbia by June 30, 2026.
Raue completed the course in August 2025.
The commissioner ordered an investigation on May 9, 2025, and later proposed a consent resolution agreement.
In the agreement, Raue admitted the facts in the document were true.
He also admitted the conduct amounted to professional misconduct and was contrary to Standard 1 of the Professional Standards for BC Educators.
Raue agreed to a two-day suspension of his certificate of qualification on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29, 2026.
In deciding that a suspension was appropriate, the commissioner said there were “significant and repeated breaches of professional boundaries by Raue.”
The commissioner also considered that Raue had already served a lengthy unpaid suspension as a result of district discipline.
Under the agreement, Raue cannot make any oral or written statement that contradicts, disputes or calls into question the terms of the agreement or the admissions made in it.
