Sunday, October 2, 2011

TDSB Protects Creepy "Sexting" Teacher

Nice work if you can get it (and you can get it if you work for the TDSB). From the Toronto Star:
If you are a teacher, you can get away with a lot and keep your job.

Toronto high school drama teacher Richard Burdett wrote more than 1,300 intimate, sexually charged instant messages to a female high school student, including a vivid description of how he had dreamt of performing oral sex on her.

On a Grade 11 and 12 school trip to England, Burdett also brought four pajama-clad female students into his dormitory bedroom and cuddled on his bed with them in an activity he called “spooning.”

Later, telling one of the girls his wife would be away for most of July, the then 40-year-old Burdett messaged, “We can throw a little spoonfest here if you want.”

It is likely that this case lead to the Ontario College of Teachers’ warning earlier this year of the dangers of social media contact between teacher and student.
For Burdett’s breaches of trust, the Toronto District School Board handed him a 30-day unpaid suspension in 2007. Burdett was then transferred out of his high school and sent to a teaching post at Toronto’s Adult Education Centre while his case meandered through the teachers’ watchdog system (the Ontario College of Teachers).

In February of 2011, Burdett was given a 12-month suspension but told that if he completed a “boundary violation” course he could be back in class by September. He is now listed as a member in “good standing” and is cleared to teach again...
Their "watchdog" is obviously toothless, barkless, and sound asleep. Don't worry, though. It appears the spoonfester has given up teaching and is pursuing another line of work. Currently, he's a
model and “boudoir” photography out of a photo studio near King and Bathurst Sts.
Some of the photos the Star has seen on his website suggest some of the females on the site are teenagers.
At least if he "spoons" with them, it's not on our dime.

Update: There's plenty of jail bait on the spoonfester's site, including this chick, who's wearing nothing but a tattoo and an Yasser shmatta.

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