B.C. teacher who told exchange students to 'go back to working on rice farms' suspended 3 days

A high school teacher in B.C. has been suspended for less than a week after making a number ofsexually explicit, rude and inappropriate comments toward students over the course of a single school year.

Klaus Hardy Breslauercannotteach fromWednesday until Friday of this week for negative and aggressive behaviour toward students, according to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, including one instance in which he told exchange students "they should go back to working on rice farms."

Breslauer admitted to a catalog of poor behaviour over the 2017/18 school year in a consent resolution agreement posted Tuesday.

Breslauer, who was teaching in Vancouver at the time, told another student to "go back to the Philippinesif they were not prepared to try" in class. A third student, whose father was from Iran, was told they would be "sent out in the minefields" in Iran if theydidnot get good grades.

The agreementsaid Breslauer also askeda student of Japanese descent if they were unable to answer a question because they had been watchingtoo much hentai, or anime pornography.

Breslauer was teaching Science 9, Science 10 and Physics 11 at the time.

In the list of misconduct outlined in the consent resolution agreement, Breslauer also:

• Accusedstudents of cheating and toldthem they deserved to contract sexually transmitted diseases for doing so;
• Refusedto give a Grade 10 student permission to use the bathroom because "you cannot run away from life'sproblems";
• Toldstudentsthey would end up at"loser Langara," a reference to Vancouver's Langara College, if they did not improve their marks;
• "Frequently" discussedhis personal lifeand sex life with students;
• Saidboys are gifted at rubbing rods and he had a lot of experience doing so, duringa science experiment involving black rods;
• Actedrudely and dismissivelytoward students' parents;
• Allowedstudents to fill out part of their own reportcards because he was too lazy to do it himself.

Breslaueralso had more than 700 racist, homophobic, sexistand transphobic memes on his work computer, some of which he created himself and shared with students.

Students also saw a photograph of Beslauer and his wife, apparently nude behind a newspaper, after the teacher posted the picture on his public Facebook page.

Breslauerresigned from the Vancouver School District in November 2018.

For all of his misconduct, the branch suspended his teacher certificate for three days. His teaching licence is invalid on May 27, 28 and29 a time at which most in-class instruction across B.C. isstillsuspended due to the pandemic.

The agreementsaid Breslauer has previouslybeen suspended without pay in 2008 and 2009, in one case after making discriminatory, offensive and threatening remarks.