Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Ontario College of Teachers Hearings - March 2015


Three-member panels of the Discipline Committee conduct public hearings into cases of alleged incompetence or professional misconduct... Discipline Committee panels have ordered that summaries of these recent disciplinary cases be published in Professionally Speaking. Copies of the full decisions are available at oct.ca/members/complaints-and-discipline/decisions.

A Discipline Committee panel ordered the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud teacher Joseph Mpitabakana to receive a suspension and, prior to accepting any teaching position requiring a Certificate of Qualification and Registration, the member is to appear before the Committee to receive a reprimand for professional misconduct... During the 2010–11 school year, Mpitabakana established an inappropriate relationship by being in a pool, whirlpool bath and shower room with a female student. Having considered the evidence, onus and standard of proof, testimony, and the submissions of College counsel, the Discipline Committee panel found the member guilty of professional misconduct, and ordered that his certificate be suspended for three months

A Discipline Committee panel revoked the Certificate of Qualification and Registration of Deren Ellis Sanli, a former College member who was teaching in Marlborough, Mass., in connection with a criminal conviction for taking pictures of students under their skirts... During the 2011–12 school year, Sanli asked female students wearing skirts to stand on chairs and desks to hang artwork high up on his classroom walls. Sanli stood behind them, held a camera down low and took a picture up their skirts. He was terminated as a result of his conduct, resigned his membership with the College and had his certificate cancelled, convicted in a criminal court and agreed that he should not be in a classroom setting.

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