A Vancouver high school teacher was reprimanded for a three-day suspension after making a series of racist comments to various students and sharing homophobic and sexist memes with the teens.
Klaus Hardy Breslauer was accused of making a list of decisions affecting decisions while teaching grades 9 and 10 and physics 11 in the Vancouver school district during the 2018/19 school year. This resulted from a recent decision by the BC Teacher Regulation Ast.
According to documents published publicly online on Wednesday (May 28), Breslauer was reported to the Regulatory Committee in November 2018. Shortly thereafter, he resigned from the district.
Among the unprofessional behaviors that Breslauer admitted was posting a public Facebook photo of himself and his wife apparently standing naked behind a newspaper, and “frequently” discussing his personal affairs, travel, gambling and sex life with students.
He also has more than 700 racist, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist memes stored on his work computer – some of which he shared with students.
Breslauer was accused by the district of making a number of rude and derogatory comments towards students, especially students with an ethnic background.
According to the records, the teacher told a student whose father was from Iran that if he did not get good grades he would be sent to minefields and told the exchange students to return to work on rice farms.
He told a student to return to the Philippines if they are unwilling to try school and on another occasion asked a student of Japanese descent if they couldn’t answer a question because they had too much ” Hentai ”. A form of anime pornography.
He was also accused of telling a student he believed cheated on a test that he deserved to get a sexually transmitted disease.
It was not the first time that Breslauer was reprimanded for his behavior, as documents show. He was suspended without pay in 2008 and 2009, including in one case after making abusive and threatening remarks.
In his decision, Commissioner Howard Kushner said the teacher had “failed to model the appropriate behavior expected from an education” and created a negative learning environment in the classroom.
Breslauer’s teaching certificate was suspended for three days from May 27-29.
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