A former Mackenzie secondary school teacher has been banned from the profession for 10 years.
The B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation issued the term earlier this month to Jared Allan Easton for a series of inappropriate acts between September 2011 and February 2013 while he was teaching at the school.
According to a consent resolution agreement, those acts included allowing students to bring music to play during instructional time.
"Some of the music played included profane and sexually inappropriate lyrics," it was noted in the agreement.
As well, in February 2012, Easton convinced two students to give him a back rub, and during the same month, wrote a sexually explicit poem and left it in the classroom where a student found it and reported it to the principal.
He also sat on a female student's lap, according to the agreement.
"He maintains that he does not recall this, but acknowledges it could have occurred," the agreement states.
In March 2013, the Prince George school district dismissed Easton for cause and in June 2013 the matter was taken before the commissioner. The resulting agreement, in which Easton admits to the conduct it sets out, states he will not be issued a certificate of qualification for 10 years.
Easton signed the agreement in February and the commissioner, Bruce Preston, signed it on April 8.
