Schippers, Mark Anthony - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct. In the 2004-2005 school year, Mr. Schippers engaged in behaviours that violated the professional boundaries between teacher and a female student. On one occasion, Mr. Schippers offered to give the student a backrub; on the second occasion, gave her a one-handed back massage and told her that she was a "distraction" to him; verbally communicated with her on a personal level; corresponded with her through MSN Messenger and sent her messages of a personal nature; gave her gifts; and inappropriately touched the student's leg on two separate occasions. On January 24, 2008, PISC approved the Consensual Resolution Agreement and Mr.
CONSENT RESOLUTION AGREEMENTConsent Resolution Agreement • July 25th, 2019
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Hernandez, Michael Richards - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to conduct unbecoming a member. He developed an inappropriate relationship with a female child participating in a theatrical program in which Mr. Hernandez was her instructor. During this time, Mr. Hernandez referred to the female child as his “special friend” and shared private time with her in discreet locations within the facility. Mr. Hernandez purchased and placed candies on parts of her face and removed them by using his mouth. He initiated greeting rituals which included rubbing noses, rubbing chins and hugging one another. Mr. Hernandez admitted that his physical contact with the female child was inappropriate and sexual in nature. Subsequently, Mr.
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Cheung, Weldon - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct and agreed that his conduct was contrary to College Standards 1 and 2. In January 2011, Mr. Cheung was employed as a physical education teacher at a secondary school when, according to a district investigation, he left his PE 11/12 class unsupervised while he had a 40-45 minute conversation with a female student in the hallway outside his class. During this conversation, Mr. Cheung tried to encourage the student not to drop out of his class and, in so doing, he referred to unrelated and inappropriate hypothetical situations, used inappropriate language about the student’s personal relationship with her boyfriend and referred to his own personal life and sexual relationships. On July 28, 2011, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Mr. Cheung agreed that the College would issue him a reprimand and that he would successfully complete the College’s professional boundaries workshop.
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SUMMARY OF CONSENT RESOLUTION AGREEMENTConsent Resolution Agreement • December 27th, 2023
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DeRaad, Willem - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct. During the 2006-2007 school year, Mr. DeRaad developed a flirtatious relationship with a female student in his grade 12 class. His communications with her sometimes included sexual innuendo, and he encouraged her to read books and see movies that involved sexual relations between characters with a significant age difference. Over the course of the school year, the relationship became physical, and Mr. DeRaad kissed and inappropriately touched the student on top of her clothing. In February 2008, Mr. DeRaad retired from teaching. In March 2008, Mr. DeRaad was criminally convicted of sexual touching of a young person, contrary to section 153(1)(a) of the Criminal Code of Canada. He was sentenced to 14 days in jail, one year of probation and a victim surcharge fine of $50.00. On December 3, 2009, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Mr. DeRaad agreed to an indefinite suspension of his College ce
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Luscher, Johnathan Lamont - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct and agreed that his conduct was contrary to College Standard 2. Mr. Luscher was employed as a teacher-on-call and was on assignment at a secondary school when, during working hours, Mr. Luscher used a school laptop computer to access inappropriate material on the internet, using the school’s wireless internet connection. His internet activity included accessing websites with adult content, which was erotic and sexualized in nature, and entering into interactive online chatting with at least one individual on one of these sites. According to the school district’s investigation, approximately 200 images were viewed. At the end of the school day, Mr. Luscher deleted the internet history and returned the computer to the school. On November 23, 2010, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Mr. Luscher agreed to receive a reprimand.
Soong, Tommy Po Yew - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct and conduct unbecoming a member of the College. While employed as a secondary school teacher during the 2007-2008 school year, Mr. Soong engaged in inappropriate behaviour with regards to his on- and off-duty interactions with students. His behaviour included having physical contact with two students, using obscenities in class and telling sexually related jokes while teaching, using unnecessarily sexualized examples in the course of classroom instruction, inappropriately using Facebook, and allowing students to inappropriately sexualize their assignments. In addition, between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Soong attended four student parties that were not sanctioned by the school. On one of these occasions, he brought alcoholic beverages and gave them to the students as a gift. On December 11, 2009, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consensual Resolution Agreement in which Mr. Soong accepted a one-year suspension of his College certificat
SUMMARY OF CONSENT RESOLUTION AGREEMENTConsent Resolution Agreement • October 9th, 2024
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Gill, Tajinder Ricky Singh - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to conduct unbecoming a member of the College. On December 30, 2009, Mr. Gill reported to the College that he had been charged with willingly committing an indecent act contrary to section 173(1)(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada. On September 17, 2010, Mr. Gill was tried and convicted of the charge in BC Provincial Court. The Court found and Mr. Gill admitted that on or about September 9, 2009 he masturbated in the driver’s seat of his car while stopped at a traffic light on a busy Surrey street and while he was deliberately making eye contact with the female driver of another car. He also admitted that on prior occasions he had masturbated in his car when he was visible to females in other cars. On November 22, 2010, the Court imposed a probation of 15 months and conditions including that Mr. Gill undergo counselling or other programs for sexual offenders as directed by the probation officer, including the sex offender program offered by the Forensic Services Commission. On
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Singh, David Balmeki - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct. In September 2008, Mr. Singh was employed as a teacher-on-call when he completed a one-month full-time assignment in a grade six class at an elementary school. During this assignment, Mr. Singh engaged in extensive verbal abuse of students in his class. For example, he referred to students as “losers” and “jackasses”, told one student he didn’t have brain cells, told the class that he would only teach the girls and not the boys and referred to one student as “stupid”. On May 10, 2010, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Mr. Singh agreed to a one-week suspension from the date of approval and his undertaking to successfully complete a course in anger management. As a result, the citation was rescinded.
Ma, Chung Yuk - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct. In June 2010, the College was notified that Ms. Ma was suspended for a period of 10 days. The school district investigation determined that Ms. Ma downloaded the song “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga and brought it to her classroom after a student had suggested the song for the music portion of the class. Ms. Ma had not reviewed the song’s lyrics prior to allowing the children to listen and sing along to it. The song contained inappropriate, sexually suggestive content and inappropriate language for children in grade three to be exposed to. It was noted that Ms. Ma’s principal had previously instructed her to ensure that she checked for the appropriateness of songs to be used in school activities, and thus should have been more attentive to this issue. On October 19, 2010, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Ms. Ma agreed to receive a reprimand and an undertaking to complete the College’s Boundary
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Riedstra, Roland Melchior - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct. Mr. Riedstra was employed as a secondary school teacher when a report was made by a female grade 12 student (who was a peer tutor in Mr. Riedstra’s dance class) that Mr. Riedstra had been sending her inappropriate text messages for a period of time. The district investigation determined that between February to May 2009, Mr. Riedstra texted the student several times. The messages were innocuous at first, but became increasingly suggestive. For example, in discussing the possible failure of the student in his class, Mr. Riedstra said, "No, I wouldn’t fail you. I might fail you if you don’t date me." On another occasion, after the student had brushed past Mr. Riedstra at school, Mr. Riedstra texted, "I got a good smell of you this morning and could feel your body through the fabric." Later that day, Mr. Riedstra sent the student a lengthy sexually explicit and graphic text message describing in detail specific sexual acts that would occur if they were
Kritikos, Anastasio - Consent Resolution AgreementConsent Resolution Agreement • September 27th, 2014
admitted to professional misconduct and agreed that his conduct was contrary to College Standard 2. The district investigation determined that, in or around the spring of 2010, Mr. Kritikos sexually harassed a female special education assistant (SEA) who worked in his classroom. Specifically, his conduct included making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature to the SEA, engaging in inappropriate physical contact with the SEA, overstepping the boundaries of the professional relationship between a teacher and an SEA and failing to recognize that the behaviours were unwelcome. On June 17, 2011, the Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee approved the Consent Resolution Agreement in which Mr. Kritikos agreed that the College would issue him a reprimand.
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