B.C. teacher banned for 15 years for having intimate relationship with former student

A B.C. teacher has been banned from teaching for 15 years after having a relationship with a former student.

According to an Aug. 2 B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation decision, the teacher kept in contact with a former student, and roughly one year after the student graduated offered them a job.

"The teacher engaged in a pattern of behaviour involving inappropriate relationships with recently-graduated former students," the decision read. The name of the teacher, or where they taught, is omitted in the decision.

The decision said the teacher then offered the former student a job through their company.

The job required travel and on a trip with the teacher, the former student entered into an "intimate personal relationship."

The student quit the job one week after returning from the trip.

The unnamed teacher began teaching in 2014 and it appears the incident took place in 2020.

Separately, the teacher also hired another former student shortly after they graduated.

The decision said on three occasions, while the teacher and former student were travelling for work, they shared a room which made the former student uncomfortable.

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In April 2020, the unnamed school district suspended the teacher for 10 days without pay.

The decision said the teacher had their teaching certificate cancelled due to non-payment in November 2021.

According to the current decision, the teacher signed a consent resolution agreement with the teaching regulator admitting to the behaviour and agreed not to apply to teach in B.C. for the next 15 years.

No other information is given in the decision.

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