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A teacher in North Vancouver has been suspended after admitting to pinching and using a "back-breaker" move on students.

Provincial   posted Jul 7, 2021 @ 11:00am by   Iain Burns BC teacher suspended for calling student 'big guy' and hitting him on the shoulder with a pickleball paddle A British Columbia teacher has been reprimanded after referring to a student as “big guy” and hitting him on the shoulder with a pickleball paddle. The BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation said Jon Marinus Lampard, a teacher at an independent school in the province, “failed to model appropriate behaviour expected of an educator.” He was also suspended without pay for a day by his school and instructed by...

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EUP students receive Principals' Award The winners of the 2021 Eastern Upper Peninsula Principals’ Awards have been announced. In order to be eligible for this award, students need to have a 3.3 grade point average or higher, a 24 on the ACT or a 1180 on the SAT and be a graduate of an Eastern Upper Peninsula high school. These students are recognized at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. In previous years, students needed to achieve an SAT score of 1200 in addition to the other requirements in order to receive this award. Local students include those from Brimley, Cedarville, Ojibwe Char...

BC teacher suspended after showing class 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'The Hobbit' movies A Prince George teacher has been handed a suspension and told to go on a course after a series of complaints were made against him. Andrew Michael Dennis – who works for School District 57 – was disciplined by the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation in March, but his case was only made public this week. Among the complaints against Dennis is that in 2018 he showed his Grade 6/7 class a film version of the children’s classic “The Hobbit,” which the Commissioner said is not age-appropriate. He...