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B.C. teacher who hit student’s bum with a book suspended
A B.C. teacher who grabbed a student's arms and pulled their phone out of their…
B.C. teacher suspended for pushing student out of classroom
A B.C. teacher has been suspended for a day for pushing a Grade 7 pupil…
‘You must always be on your period:’ Kelowna teacher suspended for comments
A Central Okanagan teacher has been suspended for five days after he told a student…
BC teacher gets 10-year ban for historic ‘physical encounters’ with female grads
A BC teacher who talked to his students about their first kiss, showed a class…
BC teacher let student live with them, made sexual comments
A BC teacher who allowed a student to live with them and then gave them…
BC teacher who demeaned vulnerable student reprimanded
A BC teacher who was once reprimanded for telling her class to "shut up" is…
BC teacher met student on dating app, then lied to investigators
A BC teacher who used a dating app to meet up with a student, and…
Lengthy ban for BC teacher who met student on Tinder, sent explicit photos
A BC teacher who sent sexually explicit photos of himself to a student he met…
BC teacher suspended for ‘bad cop’ tactics
A BC teacher was reprimanded after he used self-described "bad cop" tactics when he was…
BC teacher reprimanded for grabbing student’s arm
A BC teacher who grabbed a student by the arm has been publicly reprimanded. According to…
Okanagan teacher who tried to get pupils to snitch on friend gets reprimanded
An Okanagan middle-school teacher who encouraged a couple of Grade 8 students to snitch on…
BC teacher suspended for not letting Grade 8 student use the bathroom
A BC teacher who made a Grade 8 student cry after they told them they…
BC teacher fired for failing to report aggressive student
A BC teacher who failed to report that a student had threatened a classmate has…
Preschoolers tackle racial tensions using locally-designed dolls
ENDERBY - A troop of handmade, multicultural dolls called the Backpack Kids have been deployed to local childcare centres where they are bringing a message of diversity and acceptance to young children. The life-sized puppets, each representing a Canadian kid with a different cultural background, are part of a newly launched teaching curriculum designed to...