A Vancouver Island teacher has been suspended and was ordered to complete boundaries training after the provincial regulator found his interactions with a student while out in the community to be “unbecoming.”
Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district high school teacher Edward John Thomas Mulrooney was suspended for five days in connection with a February 2021 incident that led to a confrontation with the student later that year while she was at work.
Mulrooney admitted to the incidents deemed to be professional misconduct by the British Columbia Commissioner for Teacher Regulator in a consent agreement dated April 7 and posted online this week.
The school district initially suspended Mulrooney following reports that he looked at a female student, known as Student A, in the hallway in a manner that made her uncomfortable, the decision says. The student and two of her peers believed Mulrooney looked at her “in a way that was ‘checking her out,’” according to the document….