Teacher Suspended for Inappropriate Videos, Racist Joke

0:00It's March 29th. This is Vancouver News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. A teacher up in British Columbia Central Coast just got her teaching certificate suspended for one day by the province's regulator. Margaret Lewick showed grade 9 students two wildly inappropriate videos back on November 21st, 2024. And she also dropped A. Races joking class the year before. One clip had a dude in a speed obeyed suit, chowing down on a me pie, loaded with sexual vibes that made it totally unfit for kids. She shut it off. Quick. The other showed some aggressive teachers-apping students, with electric shocks and trash talking wheat guys, all to supposedly push better note-taking. Students were straight up shocked by her sarcastic response to a first nation's kid, asking if she took a cutting tool away because he was brown. She hit. Back with? Yes, exactly. She also belittled an education assistant in front of a grade 8 class a month later, leaving

1:01folks feeling disrespected. The school district hit her with separate suspensions, a three-day one she served in June 2024 for the joke, and a five-day one she hasn't done yet for the videos and comments. She's got prior warnings too, like for unnecessary physical contact with a student. Regulators say she failed to build a positive classroom space despite those past heads-ups, and now she's got to take a course on communication and conflict to get back on track.