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Teacher suspended over comment to gay student
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Laura Baziuk | Email news tips to laura.baziuk@corusent.com
11/9/2012

A BC high school teacher who made an inappropriate comment to an openly gay student is among the latest batch of provincial discipline decisions.


Miko McGrady was suspended for two weeks in October, after he made an insensitive comment to the teen.


He later acknowledged his inappropriateness, but said it was not meant to be homophobic or hurtful.


Another teacher among the rulings from BC's teacher regulation branch is Robert Rayond Kerr.


During a high school girls gym class, he made a disruptive student run up and down the stairs, then made her cry in front of others, saying she was being a whiney baby just seeking attention.


He agreed to a three-day suspension, with anger management and sensitivity counselling.


The same teacher was suspended for two weeks in another matter in which he tried to get reimbursed twice for costs to attend a rugby coach training session.


Other decisions include a teacher grabbing a girl's arm so hard it left a mark, and another physically preventing a student from leaving the classroom.


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  1. PaulT_8812 posted on 11/10/2012 06:30 AM
    And why is this pathetic jerk not FIRED!?! First he tries to steal from his employer, then he verbally abuses & bullies a child! If that was my daughter, he would be in the hospital right now. If my child went to that school, I would NEVER have him as her teacher
  2. joes_2868 posted on 11/10/2012 09:35 AM
    How come Susan Lambert never comments on these "JERKS". It is part of her job discription.
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