{"id":949645,"date":"2026-10-28T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949645\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:52:17","slug":"vancouver-teacher-suspended-after-asking-student-if-they-had-a-crush-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949645\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver teacher suspended after asking student if they had a crush on him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>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<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A Vancouver teacher has been suspended for two days after asking a Grade 7 student if they had a crush on him and whether they had a &#8220;special connection,&#8221; according to B.C.&#8217;s teaching regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Nathaniel Hyde agreed to the suspension after his interactions with the student in January of this year, according to <a class=\"link-_o8iA html-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/teacherregulation.gov.bc.ca\/documents\/FormsandPublications\/ProfConduct\/DisciplineOutcomes\/HYDE_CRA_20261008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a consent agreement<\/a> posted by the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The agreement says that Hyde passed the student a sticky note, which the student dropped on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;Later the same day &#8230; Hyde was sad and talked to [the student] about their dropping the note and how it made him feel,&#8221; the agreement reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">When the student told him they hadn&#8217;t intended to drop the note, the agreement states Hyde told the student that &#8220;it feels like we have a special connection, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The regulator says the following week Hyde asked the student if they &#8220;had a crush on him or something,&#8221; which left the student upset and shaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Hyde then approached the student twice afterwards, first to say that he didn&#8217;t mean to make them uncomfortable, and the second time to say that he &#8220;did not want to get fired,&#8221; the regulator found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">After the student&#8217;s parents emailed Hyde and asked to meet, the regulator says the teacher admitted his question to the Grade 7 student was inappropriate and that he had scared them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The student told the regulator that their perception of Hyde was that he would become upset if they &#8220;acted as if they didn\u2019t care about him,&#8221; and Hyde had compared the student to his spouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">According to the agreement, Hyde was suspended for five days by the Vancouver school district in June this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">In addition to another two-day suspension handed out by the regulator, Hyde was also ordered to take a course around respecting professional boundaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;Hyde breached his privileged position of power and trust as a teacher by failing to respect appropriate teacher-student boundaries,&#8221; the regulator said.<\/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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-949645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949645","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=949645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}