Dear Editor:
It appears that it is going to take some time to decide what shall be the outcome of a case of a teacher who (allegedly) force-fed a plum to a Grade 3 student (twice) back in 2010. Apparently the complaint wasn't registered until the following year.
We are assuming she is a professional woman being as she is remunerated at over $82,000, per. Nice work if you can get it, working with third graders!
Now I believe it was in this very paper that I read that, of 270 complaints to the College of Teachers, in the near past (which was basically controlled by the B.C. Teachers' Federation), not one had resulted in discipline!
This was about the time that one Aleksander Plehanov was exposed as having possibly acted improperly with one of his charges, but school officials were silent on why they hadn't notified police on the abuse allegations.
If the Teacher Regulation Branch was created to palliate these obvious discrepancies, it should just about be ready to come to a conclusion of the plum affair.
Larry Bennett, Burnaby
