{"id":727024,"date":"2026-06-10T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:48:11","slug":"secondary-school-teacher-banned-for-15-years-after-sexual-relationship-with-former-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727024\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondary school teacher banned for 15 years after sexual relationship with former student"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Text<\/p>\n

Listen to this article<\/p>\n

Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n

A former secondary school teacher at a B.C. independent school has been banned from applying for a teaching certificate for 15 years after engaging in a sexual relationship with a former student.<\/p>\n

In a consent agreement<\/a> posted by the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Jonas Alexander Douglas Huston was ruled to have committed professional misconduct in the case.<\/p>\n

The agreement states that Huston started an “inappropriate intimate and sexual relationship” with a student within five months of the student’s graduation, and he was aware that they were vulnerable.<\/p>\n

At the time he was reported to B.C.’s teaching regulator in January 2025, he wasn’t working as a teacher, according to the agreement.<\/p>\n

His teaching certificate was cancelled last November, and he will not be allowed to apply for a new one for 15 years.<\/p>\n

The agreement does not list exactly which independent school district Huston was employed at when the relationship began.<\/p>\n

“Huston was aware that the student was vulnerable to Huston\u2019s advances because of the personal relationship that Huston had fostered with the student,” the agreement reads.<\/p>\n

“Huston\u2019s conduct had the effect of abusing or exploiting the student, who suffered harm as a result of the conduct.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-727024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}