BC Regulator Seeks Cancellation of Teacher’s Certification for Comments on Residential Schools

BC Regulator Seeks Cancellation of Teacher’s Certification for Comments on Residential Schools
Jim McMurtry, formerly a teacher for the Abbotsford School District in Abbotsford, B.C. Courtesy of Jim McMurtry
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A British Columbia teacher with a 40-year career in education says the B.C. Ministry of Education’s Teacher Regulation Branch (TRB) is trying to ban him from teaching for life because of his classroom comments on residential schools, even before his case is heard by an arbitrator.

Jim McMurtry provided The Epoch Times with an excerpt from the letter sent by the TRB to his lawyer proposing a “consent resolution agreement” for the cancellation of his certificate of teaching qualification “before any adjudication of my case.”