Daphne Bramham: Should teachers who have sex with students be protected by anonymity?
So why aren’t they named? Because the Education Ministry says it could cause “significant hardship to a person who was harmed, abused or exploited by the teacher.”
There is merit in the argument that by not naming the teachers, it anonymizes the students as well. Of course, it’s surely the rare school where everyone doesn’t know their names anyway. The misconduct of one of this year’s anonymous seven spanned an unspecified number of years. But the first reported incident of “inappropriate sexual relationship” began shortly after an 18-year-old student graduated and went on for two years.He has agreed not to teach or apply to teach for 15 years. But had he been named after the first transgression, maybe there wouldn’t have been a second one.
He first had sex with her in September 2019, was fired in December and is now reported to be under investigation by the Vancouver police. On the yes-let’s-name-them side, there’s also the pragmatic consideration because schools are small, closed communities everybody already knows. So let’s not bother keeping the secret any more.
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