B.C. teacher dismissed after failing to seize weapon from student [Video]

A B.C. teacher who failed to confiscate an item that one student had planned to use to attack another has been reprimanded by the province’s professional regulator.

The teacher was working at an independent school during the 2020-21 academic year when the incident took place. The school’s principal reported the conduct to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation in July 2021.

The names of both the teacher and the school are withheld from the summary of a consent resolution agreement published on the regulator’s website Tuesday to “protect the identity of students who were harmed, abused or exploited by the teacher.”

The incident first unfolded within the teacher’s classroom, where one student, named student A in the report, threatened another with a sharp object. The teacher removed the student from the class, but he didn’t take the sharp object that had been left behind, the summary read.

The student returned …