The teacher also told one of those former students how to help “protect” him after learning their relationship had raised concerns among his colleagues, according to documents posted online this week by the BC Regulation Commissioner teachers.
A summary of a consent resolution agreement provides some details about the teacher’s misconduct but does not name him, citing a section of the province’s teacher law that allows such documents to be released anonymously “to protect the identity of students who are harmed, abused or are exploited”.
The teacher entered into relationships between 2005 and 2008 while working for the Surrey school district.
He sent one former student sexually explicit messages and invited another to “hang out with him when (the student) turned 19,” according to the documents, which show he began developing the relationships before the students graduated.
“The teacher had a pattern of transgressing professional boundaries by developing relationships with students while they were students and then developing those relationships into more intimate relationships,” the summary states.
He has not taught in an elementary or middle school since April 2015, when he took a leave of absence from his position in Surrey, and resigned from the district in December 2020.
After reviewing the circumstances of the teacher’s misconduct, the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation revoked his teaching certificate and barred him from obtaining a new one for 15 years.
Without a certificate he is not allowed to teach any grade in a public or private school anywhere in the province.
