Irene Dembek

The Member, a teacher, was convicted of possession of child pornography after police found thousands of images and several movies categorized as child pornography on his devices.

The Member pled guilty to the criminal charge and was sentenced to 15 months in custody.

In the discipline proceeding, the Member did not attend but agreed to a statement of facts and pled guilty to professional misconduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a written reprimand and the immediate revocation of the Member's certificate of qualification and registration.

The Member, a teacher, pled guilty to professional misconduct for failing to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with a student.

The Member engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship with the student, which included spending time alone with her outside of school hours, discussing personal issues, and texting about personal matters.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and the successful completion of a course on boundary violations.

The Member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for falsifying her attendance records by reporting two consecutive absence days as 'Family Care Days' in order to participate in the Boston Marathon.

The Member pled guilty to the allegations via an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct and accepted a Joint Submission on Penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension of her Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and the successful completion of a professional ethics course.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for professional misconduct related to poor classroom management, inadequate supervision, and inappropriate discipline.

The member pled guilty to failing to maintain the standards of the profession, failing to adequately supervise students, and engaging in unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and requiring the member to complete a course on classroom management before returning to teaching.

During a discipline hearing against a teacher, two of the three panel members became incapable of continuing.

The self-represented member brought a motion challenging the jurisdiction and propriety of the panel proceeding with only one member.

The remaining panel member held that while section 4.4(1) of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act confers jurisdiction to proceed with one member, it is a discretionary power.

Given the former Chair's assurances about the process, the fairness concerns of losing collective decision-making in a contested hearing with a self-represented litigant, and the relatively early stage of the hearing, the panel declined to exercise its discretion to proceed.

A new panel must be struck.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for professional misconduct.

The member, an occasional teacher, pleaded no contest to allegations that he physically abused two students by pushing, pulling, and grabbing them by the collar while redirecting them to their seats.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including failing to maintain the standards of the profession and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and required the member to complete coursework on appropriate boundaries and classroom management.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member who inappropriately accessed sick leave on three occasions to perform tasks related to his personal event-planning business.

The member deceived the school board by claiming he was ill or attending medical appointments.

The member pled guilty to professional misconduct, including failing to maintain the standards of the profession and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and requiring the member to complete a course on ethical practice.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for a pattern of abusive behaviour towards students, including swearing at them, calling them derogatory names, making violent threats about bringing a weapon to school, and physically pushing students.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a six-month suspension of her teaching certificate, and the completion of anger management and classroom communication coursework before returning to teaching.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the member due to insufficient evidence.

The member's counsel consented to the motion.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining a finding of professional misconduct and that proceeding would not be in the public interest.

The Member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for failing to maintain professional boundaries with two students and their families.

The Member inappropriately involved herself in the personal lives of the students, including expressing interest in adopting a pregnant student's baby and later withdrawing, and disclosing another student's hospitalization to her employer and boyfriend's mother.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and the completion of a course on professional boundaries.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a teacher for allegedly dismissing students early, allowing an unauthorized female visitor into the school during school hours, and engaging in sexual activity with the visitor in his school office.

The Discipline Committee found the teacher guilty of professional misconduct.

While the early dismissal of students was found not to constitute misconduct in the circumstances, the Committee accepted the evidence of the school principal and a custodian, corroborated by security footage, that the teacher violated the school's visitor policy and engaged in sexual intercourse on school property.

The Committee drew an adverse inference against the teacher for failing to call the visitor as a witness and concluded his actions breached the standards of the profession, the Education Act, and constituted disgraceful, dishonourable, and unbecoming conduct.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate conduct and making inappropriate comments to students over several academic years.

The member pleaded guilty to the allegations, admitting to actions such as causing a student to fall, making inappropriate comments about jail and alcohol, leaving red marks on a student after restraining her, and refusing to allow a student to use the washroom.

The Discipline Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a six-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of a course on appropriate boundaries and anger management before returning to teaching.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for professional misconduct, alleging she engaged in an inappropriate personal and sexual relationship with a student.

The member had previously been convicted of sexual exploitation under the Criminal Code for the same conduct.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

As the conduct involved sexual abuse, the Committee was required by statute to order the mandatory penalty of a reprimand and the immediate revocation of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the member.

The College submitted there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining a finding of professional misconduct due to insufficient evidence.

The member's counsel agreed, noting that a Children's Aid Society investigation had already found the member did not violate the duty to report under the Child and Family Services Act.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion and authorized the withdrawal of the allegations, finding it was not in the public interest to proceed where there was no reasonable prospect of a finding.

The College brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw the allegations of professional misconduct set out in the Notice of Hearing against the member.

The member was not present or represented.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, accepting the College's submission that there was no reasonable prospect of obtaining a finding of professional misconduct due to insufficient evidence.

The Committee found the withdrawal to be reasonable, appropriate, and in the public interest.

The Member, a teacher, pled guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in a romantic and sexual relationship with a student during the 2012-2013 academic year.

The Discipline Committee accepted the Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Penalty and directed the Registrar to immediately revoke the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, noting that the Member took advantage of the authority and trust placed in her as a teacher.

The Member, a teacher, pled guilty to professional misconduct following a criminal conviction for child luring.

The Member engaged in extensive online conversations of a sexual nature with an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Penalty, finding the Member guilty of professional misconduct and ordering the immediate revocation of his Certificate of Qualification and Registration.

The Member, a teacher, was convicted of accessing and possessing child pornography and sentenced to six months' incarceration.

At a discipline hearing before the Ontario College of Teachers, the Member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty and ordered the immediate revocation of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, finding that his conduct was a serious breach of public trust and that he must not be permitted to teach in Ontario.

The Member, a teacher in an alternative education program, pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct for assigning final report card marks to three students for work they had not completed or she had not assessed.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the standards of the profession, failing to comply with the Education Act, and engaging in unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and required the Member to complete a course on student assessment and evaluation.

The Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers held a penalty hearing after finding the member guilty of professional misconduct.

The member had engaged in a pattern of verbally and physically abusive conduct toward students, inappropriately disciplined students by sending them into the hallway unsupervised, and acted unprofessionally and insubordinately toward her principal.

The member did not attend the penalty hearing.

The Committee ordered that the member receive a reprimand, serve a six-month suspension of her Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and successfully complete pre-approved coursework regarding anger management and appropriate boundaries before returning to a teaching position.