A Burnaby teacher caught playing hooky last year has been reprimanded and will forfeit two days’ pay for his transgressions.
Larry Ryan, a Burnaby Mountain Secondary School P.E. teacher, called in sick on Nov. 25 and 28 in 2016 when he was not actually sick, according to a consent resolution agreement posted by the Teacher Regulation Branch this month.
Ryan used the two sick days to “attend to personal matters,” according to the document.
The school district sent him a discipline letter on Jan. 3, and required him to forfeit two days’ pay.
Ryan then signed a consent resolution agreement with the Teacher Regulation Branch, which included a formal reprimand and in which the P.E. teacher acknowledged his behaviour constituted professional misconduct.
In 2014, Ryan ran for office as a school trustee candidate in Coquitlam.
Among the top priorities listed on his election website were “ensuring that the provincial government treats public education with respect and securing appropriate funding.”
