We may have found the worst high school teacher ever - and he's in British Columbia.Klaus Hardy Breslauer was suspended for just three days after making a number of sexually explicit, rude, and inappropriate comments toward students over the course of a single school year, including one instance in which he told exchange students "they should go back to working on rice farms."
Breslauer admitted to a catalog of bad behavior over the school year in a consent resolution agreement posted this week. He told another student to "go back to the Philippines if they were not prepared to try" in class. A third student, whose father was from Iran, was told they would be "sent out in the minefields" in Iran if they did not get good grades.
Other outbursts included:
Accused students of cheating and told them they deserved to contract sexually transmitted diseases for doing so;
Refused to give a Grade 10 student permission to use the bathroom because "you cannot run away from life's problems";
Told students they would end up at "loser Langara," a reference to Vancouver's Langara College if they did not improve their marks;
"Frequently" discussed his personal life and sex life with students;
Said boys are gifted at rubbing rods and he had a lot of experience doing so, during a science experiment involving black rods;
Acted rudely and dismissively toward students' parents;
Allowed students to fill out part of their own report cards because he was too lazy to do it himself.
Breslauer also had more than 700 racists, homophobic, sexist, and transphobic memes on his work computer, some of which he created himself and shared with students. Students also saw a photograph of Breslauer and his wife, apparently nude behind a newspaper, after the teacher posted the picture on his public Facebook page. For all of his misconduct, the branch suspended his teacher certificate for just three days.
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