Terrence Singh

The Member, an elementary school teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in a pattern of inappropriate communications and boundary violations with two female students.

Over several years, the Member sent hundreds of personal emails and messages, gave gifts with hidden messages, and failed to report concerns about a student's well-being.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of failing to maintain professional standards, emotional abuse, and disgraceful conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand and a six-month suspension, noting the Member had already resigned his teaching certificate and undertaken never to reapply.

The Member, a school principal, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for making four inappropriate and disrespectful comments to and in the presence of staff members.

The Discipline Committee unanimously found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

The parties presented a joint submission on penalty proposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and coursework.

A majority of the panel rejected the joint submission, finding that a three-month suspension was unduly harsh and unhinged from the facts, as the Member's conduct did not involve physical touching and fell on the lower end of the scale of objectionable comments.

The majority ordered a reprimand and coursework without a suspension.

The dissenting panel member would have accepted the joint submission.

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

The member pleaded no contest to allegations that he made inappropriate comments to students, exposed them to sexual remarks, and inappropriately used class time to show videos about serial killers.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and sexual misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a five-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries.

The Member pleaded guilty to acts of professional misconduct.

The Discipline Committee accepted the Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, finding the Member engaged in professional misconduct.

The Panel received a Joint Submission on Penalty but expressed concerns regarding the proposed penalty.

The hearing was adjourned to allow the parties to make additional submissions in response to the Panel's written concerns.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for verbally and psychologically abusing students, failing to mark assignments, and making inappropriate comments about colleagues.

The member pleaded no contest to an agreed statement of facts detailing his use of profanity, physically intimidating behaviour, and failure to provide appropriate instruction.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a three-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of coursework in classroom and anger management.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member who was criminally convicted of sexually assaulting a former student he had coached.

The member did not attend the hearing but entered into an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, admitting to the allegations of professional misconduct.

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 the immediate revocation of the member's teaching certificate and a written reprimand.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for professional misconduct, alleging verbal, physical, and psychological abuse of students.

The member admitted to pulling a student by the sweatshirt, causing a neck sprain, and making threatening and violent comments to students, including remarks about beating, maiming, and shooting them.

The Discipline Committee accepted the member's guilty plea and found him guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a six-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification and registration, and the completion of a course on classroom management and professional ethics.